Legal Opinion
Yaqob Thomas v. Joseph Meko
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 14, 2019No. 17-5824PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
Yaqob Thomas was convicted of murder in Kentucky state court. He now seeks federal habeas relief, arguing that the Kentucky definition of murder violates due process because it prescribes two mental states-intent to kill and extreme indifference to human life-as alternative means for the mens rea element of that offense. The district court rejected that argument, and so do we.
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In 2002, Thomas and Gregory Baltimore arranged to buy cocaine from Dionte Burdette at a Waffle House in Lexington, Kentucky. The three men ate a meal and then got into Burdette's car, with…
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