Legal Opinion
Eley v. Bagley
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 14, 2010No. 06-4503PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGibbons, J., joined by Siler, J.,
CLAY, J. (pp. 971-77), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant John J. Eley was convicted in Ohio of aggravated murder and aggravated robbery and sentenced to death. He now appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging the state trial court’s failure to conduct a competency hearing, his trial counsel’s effectiveness in developing mitigation evidence, and the trial panel’s consideration of mitigation proof. For the reasons set forth below, we now affirm the district court’s decision…
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