Bryan v. Bobby

ORDER

JAMES G. CARR, Senior District Judge.

This is a capital habeas corpus case under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.:

In 2000; a jury in the Common Pleas Court of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, convicted the petitioner; Quisi Bryan, of the aggravated murder of Wayne Leon, an Officer of the Cleveland Police Department. The jury recommended that Bryan receive a death sentence, and the trial court adopted the recommendation and sentenced Bryan to death.

Bryan now seeks habeas relief on sixteen grounds.

For the following reasons, I.grant the petition on Bryan’s claim that the prosecu*476tion violated Batson v. Kentucky, 476…