Legal Opinion
Thomas Hill v. Cindi Curtin
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 9, 2015No. 12-2528PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGriffin, J., joined by Boggs, Batchelder, Gibbons, Rogers, Sutton, Cook, McKEAGUE, and Kethledge, Jj„
DONALD, J. (pp. 681-700), delivered a separate dissenting opinion in which COLE, C.J., MOORE, CLAY, WHITE, and STRANCH, JJ., joined.
OPINION
GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.
Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”), Pub.L. No. 104-182, 110 Stat. 1214, effective April 24, 1996. All habeas corpus actions filed thereafter, such as the present petition, are governed by AEDPA’s considerable restrictions on federal court review of state court judgments. In this case, the district court ruled that the limitations of AEDPA compelled the denial of…
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