Samuel Moreland v. Margaret Bradshaw

OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

Samuel Moreland, an Ohio death-row prisoner, appeals a district court judgment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In 1986, a three-judge panel convicted Moreland of killing his girlfriend Glenna Green, her adult daughter, and three of her grandchildren. Moreland contends that his conviction is not supported by sufficient evidence, that the trial court did not conduct an adequate evidentiary hearing on a child eyewitness’s competence to testify, that the trial court wrongly excluded expert testimony concerning the child.eyewitness, and that he was…