Legal Opinion
Michael Scott v. Marc Houk
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 28, 2014No. 11-4361PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COLE, Circuit Judge.
After his conviction in Ohio state court for two murders and the aggravated robbery and kidnapping of one of his victims, petitioner Michael Dean Scott was sentenced to death. Scott appealed and pursued post-conviction remedies in state court, to no avail. He now seeks habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied relief.
Scott obtained a certificate of appealability and now presents four arguments: (1) that Ohio’s “course-of-conduct” capital specification was unconstitutional as applied to his case; (2) that the trial court erroneously failed to…
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