Legal Opinion
Ballinger v. Prelesnik
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided February 23, 2012No. Case No. 2:09-CV-13886PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER CONDITIONALLY GRANTING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
ARTHUR J. TARNOW, Senior District Judge.
Petitioner, Dwayne Ballinger, Jr., filed this action under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He was convicted after a jury trial in the Wayne Circuit Court of first-degree murder, Mich. Comp. Laws 750.316, and felony-firearm. Mich. Comp. Laws 750.227b. The state trial court sentenced Petitioner to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole. Petitioner claims in his habeas application that his trial attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel when he failed to call an alibi witness…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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