Shoop v. Issa

Issue: (1) Whether, if a state prisoner"s conviction is constitutional under now-binding Supreme Court precedent, a federal court can nonetheless award habeas relief on the ground that state courts misapplied now-overruled Supreme Court precedents that governed at the time of trial; and (2) whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit correctly held that the Ohio Supreme Court failed to consider the totality of the circumstances surrounding the challenged hearsay, and that its decision was therefore "contrary to" Idaho v. Wright under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1).