Paul W. Greer v. Betty Mitchell, Warden

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• holding that petitioner “failed to demonstrate a constitutionally significant risk of racial bias affecting the Ohio capital sentencing process.”
• holding that a failure to investigate mitigating evidence might be unreasonable when a guilty verdict is likely
• concluding that defendant could not assert for first time in habeas corpus action that State struck veniremembers based on race when defendant did not raise claim in direct appeal
• noting that “this court has rejected contentions that Ohio has failed to apply its [doctrine of res judicata] consistently”
• holding that there is no Eighth Amendment right to proportionality review
• concluding that “when the record reveals that the state court’s reliance upon its own rule of procedural default is misplaced, we are reluctant to conclude categorically that federal habeas review of the purportedly defaulted claim is precluded”

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