US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Opinions Jenkins v. Hall Docket: 17-60043 Opinion Date: December 13, 2018 Judge: Stephen Andrew Higginson Areas of Law: Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of petitioner's 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for habeas corpus relief, holding that the Mississippi Supreme Court's decision was not contrary to or an unreasonable application of clearly established law. The court held that Grim v. Fisher, 816 F.3d 296 (5th Cir. 2016), barred petitioner from habeas relief. Grim applied Bullcoming v. New Mexico, 564 U.S. 647 (2011), to a case in which a crime laboratory supervisor -- rather than an analyst, as in the case here -- testified at trial, and held that such testimony did not violate clearly established law. Read Opinion
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