Williams v. Jones

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND GRANTING PETITIONER’S COUNSEL’S MOTION TO WITHDRAW

LAWSON, District Judge.

The petitioner, Walter Rydale Williams, is presently confined at the Chippewa Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Michigan. He has filed, through counsel, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in which he challenges his conviction and sentence for second-degree murder contrary to Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.317. He claims that his constitutional rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment were violated when the…