Winkfield v. Bagley

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

After a jury trial, petitioner-appellant Dennis Winkfield was convicted in Ohio state court of aggravated murder with a death penalty specification (calling for the death penalty, life in prison without parole, or life with parole after twenty, twenty-five or thirty years) and a firearm specification (calling for a mandatory three-year prison term upon conviction), kidnapping, and gross sexual imposition. Winkfield appeals a district court judgment dismissing his petition for federal habeas corpus relief, filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, as barred by the one year statute…