Can a federal district court second-guess a state court's fact-finding process?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Rosemond v. Beard, Case No.: 1:14-cv-00490 AWI JLT (HC) (E.D. Cal. 2015):
federal habeas court "must be particularly deferential to [its] state-court colleagues" on their determinations of fact. Taylor v. Maddox, 366 F.3d 992, 999-1000 (9th Cir. 2004). The federal district court "may not second-guess a state court's fact-finding process unless, after review of the state-court record, it determines that the state court was not merely wrong, but actually unreasonable." Id. at 999.
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