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HOWELL v. HODGE

No. 10-5493.

710 F.3d 381 (2013)

Karen Renee HOWELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Reuben HODGE, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: March 13, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gary L. Anderson , Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Nicholas W. Spangler , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Gary L. Anderson , Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Nicholas W. Spangler , Office of the Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

SUTTON, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which STRANCH, J., and STEEH, D.J., joined. STRANCH, J. (pp. 387-94), delivered a separate concurring opinion.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

In February 1998, Karen Howell pled guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and several other offenses. The state court sentenced Howell to three life sentences without parole for the murders and a host of other sentences for the other crimes, a set of punishments the Tennessee courts affirmed on direct appeal and declined to alter in reviewing Howell's state collateral-review...

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