LEWIS v. WILKINSON

No. 00-3523.

307 F.3d 413 (2002)

Nathaniel M. LEWIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Reginald A. WILKINSON, Director; Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General of State of Ohio, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: October 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirk A. Migdal (argued and briefed), Akron, OH, for Appellant.

Mark Joseph Zemba (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Litigation Section, Cleveland, OH, for Appellees.

Before BOGGS and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges; STEEH, District Judge.


OPINION

STEEH, District Judge.

In this habeas corpus petition, Petitioner Nathaniel M. Lewis argues that the trial court's exclusion of certain evidence in his rape trial prevented him from conducting appropriate cross-examination, thus violating his Sixth Amendment right of confrontation. Because we find that the excluded evidence reasonably goes to the issue of the victim's consent, as well as her motive in pursuing charges against Lewis, Petitioner's...

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