The following excerpt is from Alcantar v. Foulk, Case No. 1:14-cv-00747 LJO MJS (HC) (E.D. Cal. 2016):
making a reliable judgment about guilt or innocence"); Featherstone v. Estelle, 948 F.2d 1497, 1503 (9th Cir. 1991) ("The simultaneous trial of more than one offense must actually render petitioner's state trial fundamentally unfair and hence, violative of due process before relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 2254 would be appropriate.") (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).
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