Bobby Cutts, Jr. v. Keith Smith

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Bobby Lee Cutts, Jr. — an Ohio state prisoner convicted of two counts of aggra vated murder and various other crimes— challenges the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He claims that the Ohio Court of Appeals’s rejection of his claim of implied juror bias constituted a decision contrary to, or involving an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law. Specifically, he argues that he is entitled to relief because the trial court should not have allowed a juror to serve after the juror had participated in a…