Legal Opinion
Girts v. YANAI
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 29, 2010No. 18-4036PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtClay, J., joined by Martin, J.,
BATCHELDER, C.J. (pp. 588-91), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment only.
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Roberts Girts appeals the district court’s decision not to bar a pending third trial following the state’s failure to retry Petitioner within the time provided by this Court’s conditional grant of a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner has twice been convicted of the 1992 murder of his wife. Both convictions were subsequently overturned based on prosecutorial misconduct. The first conviction was overturned by the state court on direct…
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