Brown v. Booker

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ROANOKE DIVISION SHERMAN BROWN, ) Petitioner, ) ) Civil Action No. 7:16-cv-00576 v. ) ) By: Elizabeth K. Dillon BERNARD W. BOOKER, Warden, ) United States District Judge Respondent. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION Petitioner Sherman Brown, a Virginia inmate proceeding by counsel, filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his Albemarle County Circuit Court conviction for first-degree murder on May 25, 1970, when he was 23 years old. (See Amended Petition (Am. Pet.), Dkt. No. 19.) Initially…