The Supreme Court case of Michael Terrell v. Terry L. Morris in 1989 revolved around the issue of habeas corpus, a legal action through which a person can seek relief from unlawful detention. The petitioner, Michael Terrell, was an inmate at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility and argued that his constitutional rights were violated during his trial for murder due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct. He sought federal habeas corpus relief but was denied by both district court and appellate court on procedural grounds because he had not exhausted all available state remedies before seeking federal intervention as required by law. When appealed to the U.S Supreme Court, it upheld these decisions stating that exhaustion is mandatory under federal law unless there are exceptional circumstances or cause for non-compliance with this requirement - neither of which existed in this case.

The dissenting opinion in the case of Michael Terrell v. Terry L. Morris, Superintendent, Southern Ohio Correctional Facility was not specified in available resources. The Supreme Court denied certiorari without comment or recorded dissent, meaning they chose not to review the decision of a lower court and no justice publicly disagreed with this choice. Therefore, there is no known dissenting opinion for this particular case from 1989.