Larry Givens, Ef153536 v. Calvin Green, Warden

The district court dismissed Larry Givens’s 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition without prejudice because it included unexhausted claims. Givens appeals, challenging that, dismissal. We affirm.

I.BACKGROUND

Givens was convicted in Georgia of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit armed robbery. On direct appeal, his counsel filed an Anders brief and the appeal was dismissed as frivolous. Givens v. State, 251 Ga. 346, 305 S.E.2d 589 (1983). Thereafter, proceeding pro se, Givens filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court of-Baldwin County, Georgia. 1 - Following two…