PROCTOR

v.

BACKRACH CLOTHING, INC., ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• United States v. Beckham, 968 F.2d 47 (D.C. Cir. 1992)
  …ifferent exception to the hearsay rule, the exception for adoptive admissions set forth in Fed.R.Evid. 801(d)(2)(B).3 This exception is firmly rooted in American jurisprudence. See Berrisford v. Wood, 826 F. 2d 747, 751 (8th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1016, 108 S.Ct. 722, 98 L.Ed.2d 671 (1988); United States v. Monks, 774 F. 2d 945, 952 (9th Cir.1985); see also United States v. Lemonakis, 485 F. 2d 941, 949 (D.C.Cir.1973) (recognizing that adoptive admissions constitute “a long-recognized hearsay exce…
• Blalock v. A.L. Lockhart, 898 F.2d 1367 (8th Cir. 1990)
  …t his resulting conviction is so devoid of evi-dentiary support as to raise a due process issue, we may review the constitutionality of his state criminal conviction. See Berrisford v. Wood, 826 F. 2d 747, 750 n. 3, 754 (8th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1016, 108 S.Ct. 722, 98 L.Ed.2d 671 (1988). See also 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a) (habeas relief available to state prisoner “on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws ... of the United States”). We are not satisfied that th…
• Stewart v. Crispus NIX, 972 F.2d 967 (8th Cir. 1992)
  …ef. Estelle v. McGuire, — U.S. -, -, 112 S.Ct. 475, 480, 116 L.Ed.2d 385 (1991) (McGuire) (quoting Lewis v. Jeffers, 497 U.S. 764, -, 110 S.Ct. 3092, 3102, 111 L.Ed.2d 606 (1990)); Berrisford v. Wood, 826 F. 2d 747, 753 (8th Cir.1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1016, 108 S.Ct. 722, 98 L.Ed.2d 671 (1988). A federal court may issue a writ of habeas corpus only when a conviction violates the constitution, laws or treaties of the United States. 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241, 2254; McGuire, — U.S. at -, 112 S.Ct. at 480. A Fi…