Wood v. Phelps

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT □ FOR THE DISTRICT OF DELAWARE BRUCE WOOD, ) Petitioner, Vv. Civil Action No. 11-1115-CFC ROBERT MAY, Warden and ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ) THE STATE OF DELAWARE, _) Respondents." MEMORANDUM I. INTRODUCTION In 2007, a Delaware Superior Court jury convicted Petitioner Bruce Wood of sixteen counts of first degree rape and two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child. See Wood v. State,

956 A.2d 1228, 1230

(Del. 2008). He was sentenced to a total of 290 years of Level V incarceration. See State v. Wood, 2017 WL 2799170, at *1 (Del. Super. Ct. June 27, 2017). The…