Legal Opinion
Ivory v. Jackson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 15, 2007No. 05-1672, 06-2294PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
In January of 1998, Cedric Ivory was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Alanna Napier. Following a bench trial before a Michigan state court later that year, Ivory was convicted of second-degree murder and a related firearm offense. He was sentenced to a lengthy term of imprisonment on the two charges. Ivory then petitioned for state postconviction relief, but was turned down at all levels of the state judiciary. He subsequently filed a motion for federal habeas corpus relief, with his principal argument being that his trial counsel provided…
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