Kares 261586 v. Horton

WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN NORTHERN DIVISION STEPHEN JOHN KARES, Petitioner, Case No. 2:19-cv-7 v. Hon. Hala Y. Jarbou CONNIE HORTON, Respondent. ___________________________________/ OPINION Petitioner Stephen John Kares is incarcerated with the Michigan Department of Corrections. Kares seeks a writ of habeas corpus overturning his conviction. (Am. Pet’n, ECF No. 10.) The matter was referred to a magistrate judge, who produced a Report and Recommendation (R&R, ECF No. 31) that the Court deny Kares’s habeas petition. The R&R determined that Kares’s amended petition was untimely. Even if the…