Court Opinion

ID: 9464116
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:25:25.62264+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:27.973668
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PHILLIPS, Chief Judge,
concurring in the result.
I concur in the result on the ground that petitioner is precluded from resorting to federal habeas corpus relief by Stone v. Powell, 428 U.S. 465, 96 S.Ct. 3037, 49 L.Ed.2d 1046 (1976). In that case the Supreme Court said:
We hold, therefore, that where the State has provided an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment *1218claim, the Constitution does not require that a state prisoner be granted federal habeas corpus relief on the ground that evidence obtained in an unconstitutional search or seizure was introduced at his trial. 428 U.S. at 481-82, 96 S.Ct. at 3045-3046.
As I read the record in the present case, petitioner was provided “an opportunity for full and fair litigation” of his fourth amendment claim in the State courts of Kentucky. He raised this issue before trial by motion to suppress, at trial by objection, on direct appeal after trial (see Bradley v. Commonwealth, 439 S.W.2d 61, 63 (Ky. 1969)), and by motion to vacate sentence pursuant to Kentucky R.Cr. 11.42.