# Kenneth L. Bell v. E. P. Perini, Superintendent, Marion Correctional Institute, Respondent

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · December 12, 1980 · 635 F.2d 575

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9467299

## Case

- **Full name:** Kenneth L. BELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. E. P. PERINI, Superintendent, Marion Correctional Institute, Respondent-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** December 12, 1980
- **Citations:** 635 F.2d 575; 21 Ohio Op. 3d 358; 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 11474
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Merritt
- **Judges:** Merritt, Brown, Martin
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

MERRITT, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I dissent from the opinion of the Court for the same reasons expressed in my dissenting opinion in Isaac v. Engle (6th Cir. 1980). The basic reason expressed there was that Ohio’s contemporaneous objection rule provides an independent state ground for the state court’s decision under Wainwright v. Sykes, 433 U.S. 72 , 97 S.Ct. 2497 , 53 L.Ed.2d 594 (1977). That same reasoning applies to the instant case.

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