Nieman v. Carl

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN SOUTHERN DIVISION GREGORY NIEMAN, Petitioner, Case Number 21-10299 Honorable David M. Lawson v. BECKY CARL, Respondent. ____________________________________/ OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS A Michigan jury convicted petitioner Gregory Nieman of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of his 88-year-old father. He challenges that conviction and his life-without- parole prison sentence in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. ' 2254. He raises a number of grounds, but his main…