Legal Opinion
Cleveland Jackson v. Marc Houk
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 24, 2012No. 08-3677PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
Cleveland R. Jackson was convicted by an Ohio jury of two murders committed in 2002. The court sentenced him to two separate death sentences, one for each murder. The Supreme Court of Ohio on direct appeal reversed and vacated the death sentence for one of the murders based on the trial judge’s errors in limiting the voir dire, but it affirmed the other death sentence. Jackson later filed a federal habeas corpus petition, claiming a number of grounds of relief, all of which the district court denied. We granted a certificate of appealability as to nine of those…
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