Mahdi v. Bagley

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Abdullah Sharif Kaazim Mahdi (f/k/a Vernon Smith) appeals the district court’s denial of his habe-as corpus petition. Mahdi argues that the district court erred in finding that: (1) his trial counsel was not ineffective; (2) his appellate counsel was not ineffective; and (3) the retroactive application of a change in Ohio case law did not constitute a violation of the Due Process Clause. For the following reasons, we affirm the district court’s denial of Mahdi’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

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The Supreme Court of Ohio…