Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Bradshaw
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 1, 2010No. 06-4418PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSiler, J., joined by McKEAGUE, J.,
COLE, J. (pp. 224-33), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
SILER, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Phillips was convicted of rape and aggravated murder of Sheila Marie Evans and sentenced to death. The Ohio courts upheld his conviction and sentence *202on direct review and in post-conviction proceedings. The federal district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the following reasons, we AFFIRM the district court’s denial of Phillips’s petition.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Facts
On direct appeal, the Ohio Supreme Court recited these facts:
On January 18, 1993, Sheila…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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- United States v. CronicSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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