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HILL v. MITCHELL

No. 03-4132.

400 F.3d 308 (2005)

Jeffrey D. HILL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Betty MITCHELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: March 8, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary W. Crim, Dayton, Ohio, for Appellant.

Charles L. Wille, Office of the Ohio Attorney General, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee.

Gary W. Crim, Dayton, Ohio, Timothy R. Payne, Public Defender's Office, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.

Before: GIBBONS, ROGERS, and SUTTON, Circuit Judges.

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

A state-court jury imposed a capital sentence on Jeffrey Hill for the aggravated murder of his mother, and Hill now challenges a district court decision denying his petition for habeas corpus relief. Among a host of other claims, Hill emphasizes that his lawyers' failure to hire a mitigation psychologist until the day before the mitigation hearing constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. Even assuming that the delay in hiring this psychologist...

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