Keller v. Cain

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI SOUTHERN DIVISION JASON LEE KELLER PETITIONER V. CIVIL ACTION NO. 1:21-CV-134-KHJ BURL CAIN, et al. RESPONDENTS ORDER In this capital habeas case, Petitioner Jason Lee Keller asserts claims in his [27] Amended Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus that he did not present in state court. He filed a [30] Motion to Stay so that he may exhaust his state-court remedies by pursuing a successive petition for post-conviction relief in the Mississippi Supreme Court. For the following reasons, the motion is denied. I. Background In June 2007,…