Askew v. Bradshaw

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

In 2004, an Ohio grand jury indicted appellant Sero Duvall Askew on counts of possession of cocaine and trafficking in cocaine. After the trial court denied Askew’s pretrial motions to suppress evidence, Askew entered a plea of no contest. The trial court sentenced Askew to a term of imprisonment of fifteen years. After Askew was denied a writ of habeas corpus in federal court, an Ohio court vacated Askew’s sentence on state-law grounds, *343conducted a de novo resentencing hearing, and again sentenced Askew to fifteen years of imprisonment. Askew then filed the instant…