United States Sixth Circuit

Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a conviction for assault with intent to commit murder, which claimed that a trial court coerced the jury into reaching a guilty verdict by improperly polling the jury and exhibited bias and partiality that denied petitioner a fair trial, is reversed in part where the trial judge's conduct violated petitioner's due-process right to a fair trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/01/2006
• Published 12/01/2006

Judges

• Before:  CLAY and SUTTON, Circuit Judges;  OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Michael J. Newman, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellant.  William C. Campbell, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Michael J. Newman, Jennifer K. Swartz, Daniel J. Greenberg, Dinsmore & Shohl, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellant.  William C. Campbell, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee.   Earl Ray Lyell, Muskegon Heights, Michigan, pro se.