Robert Mitzel v. Arthur Tate, Warden

How courts have described this case

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• stating that Brecht harmless-error review applies under the AEDPA, “even when the ‘federal habeas court is the first to review for harmless error’” (quoting Gilliam v. Mitchell, 179 F.3d 990, 995 (6th Cir. 1999))
• challenging the state court’s determination that the evidence did not support an aiding and abetting suicide instruction
• challenging the state court’s determination that the evidence did not support an aiding and abetting suicide instruction
• challenging the state court’s determination that the evidence did not support an aiding and abetting suicide instruction
• “In applying the harmless error analysis on habeas review for cases governed by AEDPA, we apply the harmless error standard set out in Brecht.”
• ‘We may not look to the decisions of our circuit, or other courts of appeals, when deciding whether the state decision is contrary to, or an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law.”

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