Colley v. Peters

ORDER

McDADE, District Judge.

Presently before the Court are Petitioner Donald Colley’s Original (Doc.# 4) and Amended Petitions (Doc.# 17) for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. 1 The question presented for review is whether Petitioner’s trial and appellate counsel were ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment and specifically, whether the allegedly suggestive pretrial identification procedures used by the police in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause were cured by an independently reliable in-court identification. Although the Court reaches the merits of Col-ley’s claims,…