United States Sixth Circuit

A partial grant of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a death sentence is reversed in part over claims of error regarding: 1) trial counsel's conflict of interest, 2) a failure to conduct an evidentiary hearing regarding the conflict of interest, 3) trial judge's bias; 4) a Brady violation; 5) ineffective assistance of counsel; 6) prosecutorial misconduct; and 7) cumulative error.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2006
• Published 04/26/2006

Judges

• Before:  SILER, DAUGHTREY, and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Heather L. Gosselin, Attorney General's Office of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  Edmund W. Searby, Scott & Scott, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Heather L. Gosselin, Charles L. Wille, Attorney General's Office of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  Edmund W. Searby, Scott & Scott, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Randall L. Porter, Ohio Public Defender's Office, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee.