Legal Opinion
Dwayne Ballinger, Jr. v. John Prelesnik
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 4, 2013No. 12-1357PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
Following an evidentiary hearing, the district court granted Dwayne Ballinger’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The government appeals. For the following reasons, the district court’s decision will be reversed.
I. BACKGROUND
This matter arises from an early morning shooting that took place in Detroit, Michigan in 2006. Two men, Darius Jones and Mario Harris, stood talking to their friend Raymon Nixon as he sat in his car, which was parked along a residential street. Another friend, Derrick Greene, watched the conversation from across the street as he sat in…
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