Parks v. Warren

OPINION AND ORDER ADOPTING IN PART AND REJECTING IN PART MAGISTRATE JUDGE’S REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION, DENYING IN PART PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, AND REFERRING MATTER TO MAGISTRATE JUDGE FOR APPOINTMENT OF COUNSEL AND AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING ON REMAINING HABEAS CLAIM

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

Petitioner Curtis Parks, who currently is confined at the Ryan Correctional Facility in Detroit, Michigan, filed this pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on February 2, 2005. In October 2001, the petitioner was convicted by a jury of three counts of…