GROSECLOSE v. BELL

No. 95-6262.

130 F.3d 1161 (1997)

William E. GROSECLOSE, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Ricky BELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry D. Woods (argued and briefed), Woods & Woods, Nashville, TN, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Gordon W. Smith, Asst. Attorney Gen. (argued and briefed), Glenn R. Pruden (briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Criminal Justice Division, Michael E. Moore (briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, TN, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before: KEITH, RYAN, and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges.


RYAN, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which KEITH, J., joined. SUHRHEINRICH, J. (pp. 1171-1179), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

Ricky Bell, the warden of the Tennessee Riverbend Maximum Security Institution and the respondent in these proceedings, appeals from the district court's judgment granting a writ of habeas corpus to petitioner William E. Groseclose pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Although the State...

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