Churchill v. Warden, Mansfield Correctional Institution

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO EASTERN DIVISION Joseph P. Churchill, Petitioner, Case No. 2:18-cv-296 v. Judge Michael H. Watson Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz Warden, Mansfield Correctional Institution, Respondent. OPINION AND ORDER Petitioner objects, ECF No. 55, to the Magistrate Judge’s Report and Recommendations (“R&R”), ECF No. 50, recommending that the Petition in this habeas corpus case be dismissed with prejudice. When a party objects to a Magistrate Judge’s R&R on a dispositive matter, the District Judge reviews de novo those portions of the R&R to which…