Sharon May Rockwell v. Joan Yukins

OPINION

GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Sharon Rockwell, a Michigan state prisoner, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Both of the claims contained in her petition had previously been presented to and rejected by the Michigan courts. Her state remedies had thus been exhausted. She then amended her petition to include a third claim that had not been exhausted in the Michigan courts. After excusing Rockwell’s failure to exhaust her third claim, the district court granted the petition based on arguments proffered in one of…