William Keitel v. Joseph Mazurkiewicz

OPINION

CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant William Keitel was convicted in late 1998 by a jury in the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas of first degree murder, third degree murder, aggravated assault, and five counts of recklessly endangering another person. Keitel’s aggregate sentence was life imprisonment plus thirty-five to seventy years of imprisonment. Keitel unsuccessfully appealed his convictions and sentence. His efforts to seek relief under Pennsylvania’s Post Conviction Relief Act were similarly unsuccessful.

Keitel filed a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §…