Mitchell v. Vasbinder

OPINION AND ORDER (1) DENYING PETITIONER’S PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS AND (2) DENYING PETITIONER’S MOTIONS [DKT. ##20, 23, 25, 28, 30, & 31] AS MOOT

MARIANNE O. BATTANI, District Judge.

I. Introduction

Before the Court is Petitioner Phillip Drew Mitchell’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Dkt.# 1). Petitioner is a state inmate currently incarcerated at the Oaks Correctional Facility 1 in Manistee, Michigan. He was charged with armed robbery, 2 but was convicted of the lesser offense of unarmed robbery, 3 by a Wayne County, Michigan, Circuit Court…