Abelino Rodriguez v. James Ricketts

Abelino Rodriguez, an Arizona prisoner, appeals pro se the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1982). Rodriguez pleaded guilty in 1971 to second-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon not a gun. The state court sentenced him and each of his two codefendants to a term of forty-five to seventy-five years for the murder and to a concurrent term of five to ten years for the assault. After exhausting state remedies, Rodriguez petitioned for habeas corpus relief in federal court. The district court denied the petition on the merits. We…