Legal Opinion
Evans v. Beard
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 28, 2009No. Civil Action 05-6826PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NORMA L. SHAPIRO, District Judge.
William Evans, an inmate at the State Correctional Institute at Waymart, Pennsylvania, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The Honorable Charles B. Smith, former United States Chief Magistrate Judge for Eastern District of Pennsylvania, filed a Report and Recommendation (“R & R”) recommending the petition be denied. The R & R will be adopted in part and the petition will be granted.
I. BACKGROUND
On October 29, 1986, Evans was arrested in Memphis, Tennessee on warrants issued in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; he waived…
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