Kriston Price v. Ohio

Whether due process and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of appellate counsel are violated where the state courts deny reopening under Ohio App. R. 26(B) despite a substantial, outcome-determinative claim that the jury Vs : ?instriucticins Authorized conviction for voluntary manslaughter predicated upon : 'V V elements the jury had already determined were not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, producing an internally irreconcilable verdict.

Whether due process is offended and appellate counsel is constitutionally ineffective when the state courts uphold a conviction following pervasive evidentiary errors in a close self-defense case—including speculative lawenforcement “sequence of shots” narration, inference-stacking through non-expert testimony, admission of custodial-jumpsuit videos without a limiting instruction, and exclusion of the decedent’s contemporaneous intent text—where those errors bore directly on the core issues and the intermediate court refused to reopen the appeal to address them. LIST OF PARTIES All Parties to the petition are listed on the cover page. TABLE OF CONTENTS QUESTIONS PRESENTED .......................... 2 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES....................... 3 OPINIONS BELOW............................... 3 JURISDICTION....................................................................................................... 3