Legal Opinion
Beverly A. Seymour v. Diane Walker,respondent-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 16, 2000No. 98-4316PublishedCited by 668 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
After a jury trial, Beverly Seymour was convicted on November 29, 1990, of voluntary manslaughter and of a firearm specification for the shooting death of her ex-husband, Richard Reams. She brought a pro se petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, raising forty-six claims of error, principally involving ineffective assistance of counsel, illegal search and interrogation techniques, prosecutorial misconduct, faulty jury instructions, and various alleged due process violations. The district…
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