Michael R. Hogan v. State of Iowa

Michael R. Hogan appeals from an order of the district court 1 dismissing his habeas corpus petition filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 for lack of jurisdiction. We affirm.

Hogan is presently confined in Nevada under a sentence of death arising from a 1984 murder. See Hogan v. State, 103 Nev. 21, 732 P.2d 422, cert. denied, 484 U.S. 872, 108 S.Ct. 201, 98 L.Ed.2d 153 (1987). Hogan filed the instant habeas petition seeking to void a 1971 Iowa conviction for manslaughter, which was used as an aggravating circumstance in the penalty phase of the murder trial.

The district court correctly held that…