# Awkal v. Mitchell

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · July 23, 2010 · 613 F.3d 629

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9436715

## Case

- **Full name:** Abdul AWKAL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Betty MITCHELL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** July 23, 2010
- **Citations:** 613 F.3d 629; 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 15148; 2010 WL 2868184
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by White
- **Judges:** Batchelder, Martin, Boggs, Moore, Cole, Clay, Gilman, Gibbons, Rogers, Sutton, McKeague, Griffin, Kethledge, White
- **Cited by:** 64 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing Ohio’s contemporaneous-objection rule as an adequate and independent state ground that bars federal habeas review

## Opinion text

HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion and write separately only to state that I do not agree that the facts leading up to the shooting so undermined Awkal’s insanity defense that there was no realistic hope of the defense succeeding. Nevertheless, as the majority observes, Dr. Rizk’s testimony was inevitable, and there is no reason to conclude that the timing of that testimony or defense counsels’ manner or presentation affected the jury’s verdict.

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