With the recent close of the Supreme Court’s October 2015 term, it is a good time to review how the Sixth Circuit performed over the course of the term. The Supreme Court reviewed 87 cases this term, but took only four cases from the Sixth Circuit. Of those four, three were reversed—an average reversal rate … Continue Reading
The Sixth Circuit affirmed conditional grants of habeas in the Ohio cases of Gumm v. Mitchell and Bies v. Sheldon yesterday, finding in both cases that the government withheld exculpatory evidence from the defendants in violation of Brady v. Maryland. Gumm and Bies were convicted of the 1992 murder of ten-year old Aaron Raines of Cincinnati, … Continue Reading
