Legal Opinion
Rhett Gilbert Depew, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Carl S. Anderson, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 20, 2002No. 00-3513, 00-3517PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerritt, J., joined by Gilman, J.,
BATCHELDER, J. (754-760), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
This is an Ohio death penalty case in which the district court has issued a writ of habeas corpus because there was constitutional error in the sentencing phase of the trial. In Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586, 98 S.Ct. 2954, 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978), the Supreme Court found Ohio’s death penalty scheme unconstitutional because it restricted consideration of constitutionally relevant mitigating factors. In this case, the question is whether an Ohio prosecutor’s repeated inadmissible comments at…
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- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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