The following excerpt is from Burciaga v. Biter, Case No. 1:12-cv-00258-LJO-SKO-HC (E.D. Cal. 2015):
Where the state has provided the petitioner with an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim, the petitioner may not be granted federal habeas corpus relief on the ground that evidence obtained in an unconstitutional search and seizure was introduced at trial. Stone v. Powell, 428 U.S. 465, 494 (1976).
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