Apanovitch v. Houk

OPINION BOGGS, Chief Judge.

Mary Anne Flynn was found murdered and raped in her Cleveland home in August 1984. Four months later, a Cleveland jury convicted Anthony Apanovitch for aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and two counts of rape, and the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas sentenced him to death and to 45-75 years of imprisonment. Following a tortured procedural history involving parallel state and federal criminal appeals, and collateral civil litigation, Apanovitch now appeals from the district court’s 1994 denial of his 1991 habeas petition, asking us to reverse the district…