Legal Opinion
Smith v. Mitchell
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 5, 2009No. 05-4211PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Ohio death-row inmate Kenneth Smith (“Smith”) appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for habeas corpus relief from his state-court convictions and sentence. In 1996, Smith was convicted on two counts of aggravated felony murder and was sentenced to death for each aggravated-murder count. After Smith exhausted his remedies in the Ohio state courts, he filed this petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. After the district court denied his petition, a certificate of appealability (“COA”) was granted on five issues: (1) whether…
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