Legal Opinion
Donald Ray Harpster v. State of Ohio
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 4, 1997No. 96-3962PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
Respondent-appellant, State of Ohio, appeals the District Court’s order granting habeas corpus relief to petitioner-appellee, Donald Ray Harpster, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The District Court found that the state court in petitioner’s criminal trial declared a mistrial over defense objection without manifest necessity, thereby barring retrial of petitioner on double jeopardy grounds. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM.
I. Facts
A. Background
In the summer of 1995, petitioner lived with his girlfriend and her three year old daughter. On August 31, 1995, the girlfriend’s…
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