Williams v. Dutton

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NEESE, Senior District Judge,

Sitting by Designation and Assignment.

The petitioner Mr. Ray Letcher Williams applied pro se for the federal writ of habeas corpus, claiming he is in the custody of the respondent-warden pursuant to the. judgment of conviction of May 8, 1979 of the Criminal Court of Tennessee for its 11th judicial district (comprising Hamilton County) in violation of the federal Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment, § 1, Right to the Due Process of Law Clause. 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241(c)(3), 2254(a). Mr. Williams claims that he exhausted his available…