Corbett v. Brill

ORDER ADOPTING THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MAGISTRATE BACKGROUND

KAY, District Judge.

Eugene Harris Corbett (“Petitioner”) objects to the Findings and Recommenda tion (“F & R”) that his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 be denied.

A Hawaii state court convicted Petitioner of murder in the second degree in 1990 for the shooting death of Keith Talley. He subsequently entered a plea of no contest to a firearms charge. 1 Throughout the state trial, Deputy Public Defender Francis P. Akamine (“Akamine”) represented Petitioner. Petitioner’s conviction for murder was…