Whitfield v. Martin

OPINION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, GRANTING RESPONDENT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [10-1], DENYING PETITIONER’S MOTION OBJECTING TO PROCEDURAL DEFENSES [13-1], AND DENYING PETITIONER’S MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT [21-1]

TARNOW, District Judge.

Timothy C. Whitfield, (“petitioner”), presently confined at the Federal Correctional Institute in Milan, Michigan, seeks the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mr. Whitfield was confined at the Michigan Department of Corrections’ Ojibway Correctional Facility in Marenisco, Michigan at the time he…