Haywood v. Minnesota D.O.C

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MINNESOTA Xavier Alfred Haywood, No. 21-cv-2565 (KMM/DJF) Petitioner, v. ORDER Minnesota D.O.C., Respondent. Xavier Alfred Haywood brought this action seeking a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mr. Haywood alleged that his conviction and 190-month sentence in Minnesota state court for aiding an offender after the fact in a 2017 murder was unlawful for several reasons, including: (1) judicial bias; (2) the admission of hearsay evidence by the trial judge while denying him the opportunity to call the declarant as a witness; (3) abuse of…