Wells v. West

DECISION AND ORDER

MARRERO, District Judge.

Pro se petitioner Curtis Wells, Jr. (“Wells”) was convicted of burglary in the second degree after trial in May 1999 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County (the “Trial Court”). He is currently serving a sentence of fifteen years in prison. Wells has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that two members of the jury pool at his trial were wrongfully excluded from the jury during voir dire because of their race. Because independent and adequate state procedural grounds bar federal habeas review of Wells’s…