Stewart, Byron v. Boughton, Gary

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN BYRON RAMON STEWART, Petitioner, OPINION and ORDER v. 18-cv-185-jdp GARY BOUGHTON, Respondent. Pro se petitioner Byron Ramon Stewart, a state prisoner incarcerated at Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide. Both Stewart and another man, Thomas Conner, had been charged for the killing under Wisconsin’s party-to-a- crime statute. Stewart and Conner each testified at Stewart’s trial that the other had shot the victim. Stewart now seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. §…