United States Sixth Circuit

Grant of a habeas petition challenging a conviction and sentence for aiding and abetting a felony murder is reversed where a state court's denial of habeas relief was not an unreasonable application of federal law as petitioner could not satisfy the prejudice prong of the Strickland ineffective assistance of counsel test.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2007
• Published 04/03/2007

Judges

• Before: NORRIS, COLE, and CLAY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Brad H. Beaver, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellant.  Louis K. Fisher, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Brad H. Beaver, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellant.  Louis K. Fisher, Jones Day, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.