What is the burden of rebutting the presumption that all factual determinations made by the state court were correct?
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The following excerpt is from Farrington v. Senkowski, 214 F.3d 237 (2nd Cir. 1999):
(quoting Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 324 (1979)). Appellant bears the burden of rebutting the presumption that all factual determinations made by the state court were correct. See 28 U.S.C. 2254(e).
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