Legal Opinion
Tolliver v. Sheets
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 22, 2010No. 08-3177PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge.
Kevin Tolliver was convicted in Ohio state court in 2002 of murdering his live-in girlfriend, Claire Schneider, in the early morning hours of December 29, 2001. On January 18, 2008, the district court dismissed Tolliver’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, but certified two issues for appeal: (1) whether Tolliver’s statements to police on the night of Schneider’s death were unconstitutionally obtained and thus were improperly admitted at trial; and (2) whether Tolliver established cause and prejudice for procedural default of an ineffective assistance of…
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