Ryan Hung-Ping Wang v. William Withworth Lincoln Stokes Anthony J. Celebrezze, Respondents

KEITH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-Appellant Ryan Hung-Ping Wang, a Chinese national, appeals the judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petition arises put of Wang’s conviction and thirty-day prison sentence for misdemeanor theft in the second of two jury trials before the Court of Common Pleas, Hamilton County, Ohio. Wang was indicted in both the first and second trials for grand theft under an enhanced felony statute, Ohio Revised Code § 2913.02(B).1

Wang’s first trial on the enhanced felony charge…