Condon v. Wolfe

GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Thomas Condon was convicted of abusing a corpse after he gained unauthorized entry to a county morgue and photographed dead bodies that he had posed in various positions and with various props. Condon filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the prosecution denied him a fair trial by making inappropriate statements during its closing argument and by refusing to disclose a document that the trial court ruled was not exculpatory. He also argues that the trial court erred by refusing to issue his preferred jury instructions, that Ohio’s…