United States Sixth Circuit

Defense counsel did not render ineffective assistance of counsel in a statutory rape trial by failing to remove a juror who was the social worker for the victim's mother when his trial strategy was based on the mother's reputation for dishonesty.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/12/2001
• Decided 10/11/2001
• Published 10/11/2001

Judges

• Before MARTIN, Chief Judge;  NORRIS, Circuit Judge;  QUIST, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David H. Bodiker (briefed), Susan M. Roche (argued and briefed), Public Defender Commission, Columbus, OH, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan R. Fulkerson (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Litigation Section, Columbus, OH, for Respondent-Appellee.