Warren v. Lewis

MEMORANDUM ORDER

JOHN T. NIXON, Senior District Judge.

Pending before this Court is Respondent’s Motion to Dismiss and/ or For Judgment as a Matter of Law (Doc. No. 8), filed in response to Petitioner’s Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (Doc. No. 1). Petitioner has now filed a response to Respondent’s Motion (Doc. No. 20). For the reasons discuss below, Mr. Warren’s Petition is granted in part and denied in part.

I. Background

On April 12, 1993, Tommy Ray Warren entered a plea to two counts of first degree murder, and was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences. On January 23, 1996,…