Waller vs. Warden Terry Tibbals
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DECISION AND ORDER DENYING SECOND MOTION FOR STAY 13 . Signed by Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz on 12/16/2015. (kpf)(This document has been sent by regular mail to the party(ies) listed in the NEF that did not receive electronic notification.)
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
WESTERN DIVISION AT DAYTON
JASON WALLER,
Petitioner,
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- vs -
Case No. 3:15-cv-310
District Judge Thomas M. Rose
Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz
TERRY TIBBALS, Warden,
London Correctional Institution,
:
Respondent.
DECISION AND ORDER DENYING SECOND MOTION FOR STAY
This habeas corpus case is before the Court on Petitioner’s Motion for Stay and
Abeyance (ECF No. 13).
Petitioner previously filed a Motion for Stay (ECF No. 10) which Respondent opposed
(ECF No. 11) and which the Court denied because it did not identify the claims intended to be
exhausted or the vehicle by which Waller intended to exhaust them (Decision and Order, ECF
No. 12). Waller has responded by identifying three unexhausted claims for relief and intends to
pursue them by a motion for delayed appeal to the Ohio Supreme Court.
A principal reason for the stay procedure approved by the Supreme Court in Rhines v.
Weber, 544 U.S. 269, 277-278 (2005), was to allow a habeas petitioner to exhaust state remedies
on claims pled in a mixed habeas petition and avoid both dismissal for lack of exhaustion under
Rose v. Lundy, 455 U.S. 509 (1982), and the bar of the one-year statute of limitations adopted in
the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
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Those reasons do not support a stay here. The three claims Petitioner sets forth in his
Motion are not part of the Amended Petition so that, at least with respect to these claims, it is not
a “mixed” petition. Furthermore, the remedy Waller intends to use – delayed direct appeal to the
Ohio Supreme Court – is not available to him. He has already taken a delayed appeal to the Ohio
Supreme Court. State v. Waller, 138 Ohio St. 3d 1491 (2014). Ohio practice does not provide
for two such delayed appeals.
The Motion for Stay is therefore DENIED.
December 16, 2015.
s/ Michael R. Merz
United States Magistrate Judge
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