United States Ex Rel. Clemons v. Walls

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CASTILLO, District Judge.

Imari Clemons petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, attacking his state court first degree murder conviction and the resulting sentence. Petitioner Clemons claims that: (1) he was denied the right to a fair trial by the admission of extraneous evidence about gangs; (2) he was denied his Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to the effective assistance of counsel at both the trial and sentencing stages; and (3) the post-conviction court erred when it did not grant an evidentiary hearing on his claim…