Harrison Norris, Jr. v. United States

WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to decide whether the district court'erred by denying an evidentiary hearing for Harrison Norris’s motion to vacate, 28 U.-S.C. § 2255, which alleged that his conviction violated the Due Process Clause because his trial judge was biased against him and mentally incompetent. Norris, a black man, was convicted of forcing women, ■ many of whom were white, into prostitution. Judge Jack Camp presided over Norris’s trial and sentenced him to life in prison. We vacated that sentence as an impermissible general sentence. On remand, a different…