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JONES v. TOOMBS

No. 95-1340.

125 F.3d 945 (1997)

Zachary JONES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Raymond TOOMBS, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided February 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zachary R. Jones (brief), Carson City, MI, pro se, Trisha Zeller James (argued and briefed), Louisville, KY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Kathleen Davison Hunter, Asst. Attorney General (argued and briefed), Arthur E. D'Hondt, Office of the Attorney General, Habeas Division, Lansing, MI, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before: MARTIN, Chief Judge; KEITH and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Chief Judge.

Zachary R. Jones appeals the dismissal of his habeas corpus petition, claiming that the district court improperly dismissed his petition on the basis that Jones procedurally defaulted his claims pursuant to an adequate and independent state procedural rule. For the reasons given below, we affirm the decision of the district court.

I.

During the summer of 1983, in two separate proceedings in Michigan...

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