McMeans v. State of Alabama (INMATE 3)

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA NORTHERN DIVISION THOMAS McMEANS, # 216225, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) Civil Action No. v. ) 2:19-cv-1039-WHA-CSC ) (WO) STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., ) ) Respondents. ) RECOMMENDATION OF THE MAGISTRATE JUDGE This case is before the Court on a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, by which Alabama prisoner Thomas Kenyon McMeans challenges his 2013 conviction for rape in the first degree and his resulting 30-year sentence. Doc. 1.1 Respondents argue that McMeans’s petition is time-barred under the AEDPA’s…