United States Sixth Circuit

The Ohio appellate court invoked the procedural bar imposed by defense counsel's failure to lodge a contemporaneous objection sufficiently to preclude federal court review of a juror coercion claim on habeas, thus denial of a 28 U.S.C. section 2254 petition is affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2003
• Decided 08/14/2003
• Published 08/14/2003

Judges

• Before SILER and ROGERS, Circuit Judges;  GWIN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John P. Feldmeier (argued and briefed), Marc D. Mezibov (briefed), Sirkin, Pinales, Mezibov & Schwartz, Cincinnati, OH, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Diane Mallory (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Litigation Section, Columbus, OH, for Appellee.