WRIGHT v. BELL

No. 07-5305.

619 F.3d 586 (2010)

Charles Walton WRIGHT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ricky BELL, Warden, Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 31, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kelley J. Henry , Federal Public Defender's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. James E. Gaylord , Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Kelley J. Henry , Federal Public Defender's Office, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. James E. Gaylord , Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

Before: COLE, ROGERS, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

Charles Walton Wright, sentenced to death for committing two 1984 murders, appeals from a district court judgment denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The following issues have been certified for appellate review: (1) whether the trial court's admission of a medical examiner's testimony speculating about the sequence in which the two victims were killed denied Wright a fundamentally fair trial; (2) whether trial...

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