Ray v. Bauman

DAVID M. LAWSON, United States District Judge *451Petitioner John Henry Ray is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. He alleged in his habeas corpus petition, among many other things, that his Sixth Amendment rights were abridged when his lawyer was excluded from a critical stage of his state prosecution. His habeas corpus case returns to this Court following a remand by the court of appeals to consider two main issues: "(1) whether there was an adjudication on the merits as to Ray's [ United States v. ] Cronic [, 466 U.S. 648, 104 S.Ct. 2039, 80 L.Ed.2d 657 (1984) ] claim, and (2)…