Legal Opinion
James O'Neal v. Margaret Bagley
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 26, 2013No. 11-3449PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J., joined by McKEAGUE, J.,
MERRITT, J. (pp. 564-67), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted James O’Neal of the aggravated murder of his wife, and a state trial court sentenced him to death at the jury’s recommendation. The Ohio courts affirmed his conviction and sentence on direct review and denied post-conviction relief. O’Neal then filed a petition for habeas corpus in federal court, which the district court denied. We affirm.
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In September 1993, James O’Neal moved into a house in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife Carol O’Neal, her four children, all from prior…
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