Williamson v. Lockhart

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GEORGE HOWARD, Jr., District Judge.

Currently before the Court is the petition of Charles Henry Williamson (Williamson), an inmate incarcerated at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction under a life sentence, for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. § 2254 alleging:

1. Petitioner did not waive his right to a jury trial in accordance with ARCrP Rules 37.1 and 37.2. There is no written or otherwise recorded record of petitioner waiving a jury trial. Therefore, petitioner should have been entitled to a jury of his peers as guaranteed by…