Thomas v. Pierce

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

Defendant Adrian Thomas has brought a petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 (2006) for a writ of habeas corpus. Thomas is currently in the custody of the State of Illinois Department of Corrections and is incarcerated at the Pontiac Correctional Center. 1 I must deny his petition because Thomas has procedurally defaulted all of his claims and has not shown either a cause for this default, or that actual prejudice or a fundamental miscarriage of justice will result from a failure to consider his claims.

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Thomas was convicted of first degree…