Anthony Grigsby v. Zettie Cotton, Superintendent

MANION, Circuit Judge.

In 1988 an Indiana state court enhanced Anthony Grigsby’s sentence for attempted armed robbery to 50 years’ imprisonment because the court found he was a habitual offender. He had pleaded guilty to armed robbery in 1978 and had been convicted of burglary in 1986. Grigsby filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in April 2004, alleging, as relevant to this appeal, that his 1978 guilty plea was unconstitutional because the state failed to provide him counsel during his juvenile waiver hearing (Grigsby was 16 years old when he was arrested). Thus…