Hughes v. Lund

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER REGARDING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE

BENNETT, Chief Judge.

In this action, petitioner Dexter Jordan Hughes seeks habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 from his conviction in Iowa state court on a charge of first-degree felony murder in the death of his eight-month-old son, Devriek Jennings, in Waterloo, Iowa, on September 25, 1987. The felony underlying Hughes’s felony murder conviction was felonious child endangerment. Hughes was convicted on September 9, 1988, after a bench trial in the Iowa District Court for Black Hawk County that…