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VARNER v. STOVALL

No. 06-1255.

500 F.3d 491 (2007)

Janniss VARNER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Clarice STOVALL, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: September 11, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: James Sterling Lawrence, Royal Oak, Michigan, for Appellant. Debra M. Gagliardi, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: James Sterling Lawrence, Royal Oak, Michigan, for Appellant. Janet A. VanCleve, Office of the Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee.

Before: GIBBONS and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; BECKWITH, Chief District Judge.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

A jury convicted Janniss Varner of assault with intent to commit murder after she hired a third party to shoot her abusive boyfriend. In her federal habeas petition, she claimed that the state courts (1) violated her rights under the Religion Clauses of the First and Fourteenth Amendments by admitting into evidence several journal entries that included prayers and an acknowledgment that she had tried to kill her boyfriend and...

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