Case Name: Percy HUTTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charlotte JENKINS, Warden Respondent-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-11-22
Citations: 704 F. App'x 584
Docket Number: No. 13-3968
Parties: Percy HUTTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charlotte JENKINS, Warden Respondent-Appellee.
Judges: BEFORE: MERRITT, ROGERS, and DONALD, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 704
Pages: 584–585

Head Matter:
Percy HUTTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charlotte JENKINS, Warden Respondent-Appellee.
No. 13-3968
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Filed November 22, 2017
Michael J. Benza, Law Office of Michael J. Benza, Chagrin Falls, OH, Jillian S. Davis, Alan C. Rossman, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender’s Office, Cleveland, OH, for Petitioner-Appellant
Eric E. Murphy, Katherine Elizabeth Mullin, Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Cleveland, OH, Charles L. Wille, Hannah Carrigg Wilson, Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Columbus, OH, for Respondent-Appellee
BEFORE: MERRITT, ROGERS, and DONALD, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This death-penalty case comes back to our court on remand after the Supreme Court's decision in Jenkins v. Hutton, — U.S. —, 137 S.Ct. 1769, 198 L.Ed.2d 415 (2017). There the Court reversed this panel's conditional grant of Hutton's habeas petition, holding that we improperly applied the fundamental-miscarriage-óf-jus-tice exception to procedural default when we granted relief on Hutton's jury-instruction claim. See id. at 1771-73. Because that exception does not apply and because, for the reasons given in our previous opinion, Hutton has not otherwise shown a valid basis for excusing the procedural default, Hutton v. Mitchell, 839 F.3d 486, 500-01 (2016), the district court properly denied his jury-instruction claim as procedurally defaulted. With respect to Hutton's other claims of error, we reject them for the reasons given in our prior opinion. See id. at 500-05. We therefore affirm the judgment of the district court denying Hutton's petition for habeas corpus.