Stevens v. Carlin

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO EDWARD STEVENS, Case No. 3:14-cv-00403-REB Petitioner, MEMORANDUM DECISION AND v. ORDER TEREMA CARLIN, Respondent. INTRODUCTION Habeas corpus petitioner Edward Stevens (“Petitioner” or “Stevens”) asserts that he is incarcerated in violation of the United States Constitution. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254. At Petitioner’s trial, evidence established that Petitioner’s girlfriend’s eleventh-month old son, C.W., died from a head injury when he was left in Petitioner’s care. Petitioner maintained that the child fell down a flight of stairs and hit his…