Claudious W. Channer v. Warden Leslie E. Brooks

Claudious Channer appeals from the denial by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Alvin W. Thompson, Judge) of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In that petition, Channer asserted that the Connecticut Superior Court made unreasonable determinations of fact and left certain key facts undeveloped during a post-conviction hearing at which the Court declined to order a new trial after both of the state’s eyewitnesses recanted their trial testimony. Channer presently seeks either a new trial or a remand to the District Court for an…