DANIELS v. LAFLER

No. 05-1846.

501 F.3d 735 (2007)

Todd DANIELS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Blaine LAFLER, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 5, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James Sterling Lawrence, Royal Oak, Michigan, for Appellant. William C. Campbell, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: James Sterling Lawrence, Royal Oak, Michigan, for Appellant. William C. Campbell, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee.

Before: BOGGS, Chief Judge; and CLAY and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

BOGGS, Chief Judge.

In 1996, Todd Daniels helped a friend to burn down a house in Detroit, killing three children. In 1997, a Michigan state jury convicted him of three counts of second-degree murder and seven counts of assault with intent to commit murder. The trial court sentenced him to twenty to forty years of imprisonment. The district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus; he now appeals. First, he contends that the trial court...

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