Legal Opinion
Billy Joe Sowell v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 23, 2004No. 02-3441PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, J., joined by Batchelder, J.,
MOORE, J. (pp, 838-11), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
The state of Ohio indicted Petitioner Billy Joe Sowell for murder, with a stipulation that he could receive the death penalty. Relying on advice of his counsel, So-well opted to be tried by a three-judge panel rather than by a 12-member jury. Sowell’s counsel was confident that one of the three judges on the panel would refuse to recommend death. The panel nevertheless imposed the death penalty, and So-well’s direct and collateral appeals through the Ohio courts were unsuccessful. On federal habeas…
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