Manis v. Wyrick

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER APPOINTING COUNSEL, ORDER OF REFERENCE TO MAGISTRATE TO CONDUCT AN EVIDENTIARY HEARING

JOHN W. OLIVER, Senior District Judge.

I

This is a State prisoner habeas corpus case. Because an order appointing counsel and an order of reference to a United States Magistrate will be entered, it is appropriate that we state in some detail the petitioner’s prior efforts to seek federal habeas corpus relief in order that the Magistrate and counsel be advised of what questions are and are not presented in connection with the currently pending petition.

II

The earlier and complicated…