Rockwell v. Palmer

OPINION

ROBERT J. JONKER, District Judge.

This is a habeas corpus action brought by a state prisoner under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. On April 9, 1997, a jury convicted Petitioner, Tony Thomas Rockwell, of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny, Mich. Comp. Laws § 750.10, and resisting and obstructing a police officer, Mioh. Comp. Laws § 750.479(b). On May 15, 1997, the trial court sentenced Petitioner as a fourth habitual offender to prison terms of three to fifteen years for the resisting and obstructing conviction and ten to twenty years for the breaking and entering conviction.…