Legal Opinion
Michael E. Valentine v. Khelleh Konteh, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 24, 2005No. 03-4027PublishedCited by 102 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
An Ohio jury convicted Michael Valentine of 40 counts of sexual abuse, for which he was sentenced to 40 consecutive life sentences. In bringing a petition for habe-as corpus, he contends that the Ohio indictment violated his constitutional right to due process. Valentine was convicted of 20 “carbon-copy” counts of child rape, each of which was identically worded so that there was no differentiation among the charges and 20 counts of felonious sexual penetration, each of which was also identically worded. The prosecution did not distinguish the factual bases of…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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