Opinion ID: 797369
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The district court's review

Text: 36 The magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation adopted by the district court concluded that the bulk of Nields's prosecutorial-misconduct claim was procedurally defaulted and that he makes no effort in his Traverse to show excusing cause and prejudice. In addition, [w]ith respect to those claims of prosecutorial misconduct which survive procedural default, Petitioner has not shown how any such claimed misconduct either was indeed misconduct or how, cumulatively, such instances of misconduct as the Ohio Supreme Court found deprived Petitioner of a fair trial. Accordingly, Petitioner has not demonstrated that the Ohio Supreme Court's decision on this claim was an objectively unreasonable application of the relevant United States Supreme Court precedent [in Donnelly v. DeChristoforo, 416 U.S. 637, 94 S.Ct. 1868, 40 L.Ed.2d 431 (1974)].