United States Sixth Circuit

District court's grant of defendant's conditional writ of habeas corpus based on ineffective assistance of counsel is reversed as trial judge only repeated, at the jury's request, specific instructions that had previously been given in the presence of plaintiff's counsel, and thus it is not deemed a critical stage in the proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/03/2003
• Published 12/03/2003

Judges

• Before MOORE and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  MILLS, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Janet A. Van Cleve, Laura Graves Moody (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Habeas Corpus Division, Lansing, MI, Jeanice Dagher-Margosian (briefed), Ann Arbor, MI, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kevin M. Schad (argued) Schad & Cook, Indian Springs, OH, for Appellee.