Gordon Stanley v. Melody L. Turner

MILBURN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Gordon Stanley, an Ohio prisoner, appeals from the judgment of the district court dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On appeal, the issues are (1) whether Ohio’s involuntary manslaughter statute, O.R.C. § 2903.04, contains a constitutionally satisfactory element of mental culpability, and (2) whether the trial jury was correctly instructed as to that element of the case. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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On February 26,1988, in Chillicothe, Ohio, Raymond J. Pack, the superintendent of a vocational…