Mickens v. Duckworth

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ALLEN SHARP, Chief Judge.

I

On August 1, 1986, the petitioner, Carl Mickens, proceeding pro se, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner is now an inmate at the Indiana State Prison, having been previously convicted and sentenced in the Rush Circuit Court on February 26, 1981 of a Class B felony, burglary, and was also found to be an habitual offender and was sentenced to a total of 47 years imprisonment.

The state record has been filed here and carefully examined pursuant to the mandates of Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293, 83 S.Ct. 745,…