The Supreme Court has acknowledged the possibility of a due process violation from improper joinder only in dicta. The rule of due process at issue here is “one of the most general in all of criminal law,” Bass v. Burt, 850 Fed.Appx. 962, 965 (6th Cir. 2021), and “where the precise contours of a right remain unclear, state courts enjoy broad discretion in their adjudication of a prisoner's claims[.]” Id. (quoting Woods, 575 U.S. at 318) (internal quotation marks omitted)).
As the Magistrate Judge noted, the Supreme Court has acknowledged the possibility of a due process violation from improper joinder only in dicta. The rule of due process at issue here is “one of the most general in all of criminal law,” and “where the precise contours of a right remain unclear, state courts enjoy broad discretion in their adjudication of a prisoner's claims.” Bass v. Burt, 850 Fed.Appx. 962, 965 (6th Cir. 2021) (quoting Woods v. Donald, 575 U.S. 312, 318 (2015) (per curiam)).
The Supreme Court has acknowledged the possibility of a due process violation from improper joinder only in dicta. The rule of due process at issue here is “one of the most general in all of criminal law,” Bass v. Burt, 850 Fed.Appx. 962, 965 (6th Cir. 2021), and “where the precise contours of a right remain unclear, state courts enjoy broad discretion in their adjudication of a prisoner's claims[.]” Id. (quoting Woods, 575 U.S. at 318) (internal quotation marks omitted)).
The Court agrees that, given the properly admitted evidence of Petitioner's guilt, the record did not support a conclusion that Petitioner was prejudiced by their omission. See Bass v. Burt, 850 Fed.Appx. 962, 966 (6th Cir. 2021) (denying habeas relief because prior act evidence was erroneously admitted and concluding that the petitioner “seriously underestimates the evidence of his guilt and exaggerates the prominence of the rape evidence at trial,” echoing the state court's holding that “that the admission of this evidence was harmless in light of the ‘overwhelming' circumstantial proof of [the petitioner's] guilt”); cf. Millsap v. Allbaugh, 2019 WL 1302548, at *15 (E.D. Okla. Mar. 21, 2019) (“The admission of the other crimes and bad acts evidence