Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy

Type

Opinion

Per curiam

Yes — no individual author

Filed

June 17, 2025

Case

Gregory Tucker v. Noah Nagy

Case status

Decided

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NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PUBLICATION File Name: 25a0306n.06 Case No. 24-1723 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT FILED Jun 17, 2025 ) KELLY L. STEPHENS, Clerk GREGORY TUCKER, ) Petitioner-Appellee, ) ) ON APPEAL FROM THE v. ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT ) COURT FOR THE EASTERN NOAH NAGY, Warden, ) DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN Respondent-Appellant. ) _______________________________________ ) OPINION Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; BATCHELDER and RITZ, Circuit Judges. ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge. The state of Michigan prosecuted and convicted Gregory Tucker for breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny. The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction. Tucker then petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court granted his petition, concluding that the Michigan Court of Appeals unreasonably applied clearly established Supreme Court precedent. We REVERSE and REMAND because the Michigan Court of Appeals’ application of Jackson v. Virginia was not unreasonable. I. On September 30, 2016, someone burglarized Talya Ashford’s makeup studio. When Ashford arrived at work the following day, she found an empty Coke bottle and a cigarette lighter that had not been th…

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