TITLOW v. BURT

No. 10-2488.

680 F.3d 577 (2012)

Vonlee Nicole TITLOW, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Sherry L. BURT, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 22, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Laura Kathleen Sutton , Manchester, Michigan, for Appellant. Laura Graves Moody , Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Laura Kathleen Sutton , Manchester, Michigan, for Appellant. John S. Pallas , Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee.

GILMAN, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which CLAY, J., joined. BATCHELDER, C.J. (pp. 593-96), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.


OPINION

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Vonlee Nicole Titlow, a transgender prisoner presently incarcerated at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan, appeals from the district court's denial of her petition for a writ of habeas corpus following her conviction in state court for the second-degree murder of her uncle. Titlow raises several ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claims, as well as a prosecutorial-misconduct claim and...

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