Legal Opinion
Tyson O'Neal v. Erick Balcarcel
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 7, 2019No. 18-2201PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
*620 The warden appeals the district court's grant of Appellee Tyson O'Neal's application for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 . O'Neal was convicted in Michigan state court of the second-degree murder of Gene Shelby, who was shot at a gas station. At trial, O'Neal argued that Parish Hickman, not O'Neal, had shot Shelby. Over O'Neal's objections, the trial court excluded two statements that would have supported this defense theory: (1) a jailhouse confession that Hickman allegedly made to another inmate, claiming that Hickman had gotten away with…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Arizona v. FulminanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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