Opinion ID: 2756443
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Heading: This court grants Ayers’s habeas petition

Text: In January 2004, Ayers filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on four distinct grounds. The district court denied his petition. This court then issued a certificate of appealability on Ayers’s claim that the government had violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. It found that the government “intentionally created a situation likely to induce Ayers to make incriminating statements without the assistance of counsel when it returned Hutchinson to Ayers’ jail pod and he thereafter deliberately elicited information from Ayers.” Id. at 310 (internal quotation marks, citation, and alterations omitted). On October 5, 2010, the district court was instructed to grant Ayers a conditional writ of habeas corpus, and this court further ordered the state of Ohio to provide Ayers with a new trial within 180 days or to release him. The State elected not to retry Ayers, and he was released from prison on September 12, 2011.