Charles E. Neal v. Terry L. Morris

KRUPANSKY, Senior Circuit Judge.

The respondent-appellant Terry Morris (“State”), warden of Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, timely appealed from the district court’s grant of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. section 2254 to the petitioner-appellee, Charles E. Neal (Neal). Neal was indicted by the Hamilton County grand jury on one count of aggravated robbery in violation of Ohio Revised Code section 2911.01. He was found guilty as charged following a bench trial by the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court. Neal was sentenced to a term of imprisonment from seven to twenty-five years.

Neal…