Lewis v. Butler

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION MARCUS MARTEZ LEWIS, ) #181862 ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) CIV. A. NO. 22-00177-TFM-MU ) REOSHA BUTLER, ) Warden ) ) Respondent. ) REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION Marcus Martez Lewis (Lewis), a state prisoner currently in Respondent’s custody, has petitioned this Court for federal habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. (Doc. 1). Lewis attacks his 1995 murder conviction in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama. The District Judge assigned to Lewis’s case referred Lewis’s petition to the…