Legal Opinion

Brooks v. Wolcott

District Court, W.D. New York

Decided June 11, 2020No. 1:20-cv-00516Unknown

1Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK WILLIAM BROOKS, Petitioner, Vv. 20-CV-0516 (JLS) JULIE WOLCOTT, Superintendent of Orleans Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents. DECISION AND ORDER Pro se Petitioner William Brooks, an inmate at Orleans Correctional Facility, petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, seeking immediate release based on the conditions of his confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. See Dkt. 1. Respondents moved to convert Brooks’s petition to one brought pursuant to

28 U.S.C. § 2254

(Dkt. 5), which the Court…

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