Legal Opinion

Burns v. Foster

District Court, E.D. Wisconsin

Decided February 23, 2021No. 2:18-cv-01893Unknown

1Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN LENGEORGE BURNS, Petitioner, v. Case No. 18-CV-1893 BRIAN FOSTER, Respondent. DECISION AND ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS Lengeorge Burns, a prisoner in Wisconsin custody, seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Burns was convicted of armed robbery, first-degree reckless injury, and three counts of false imprisonment, all as party to a crime and as a repeater. (Habeas Pet. at 2, Docket # 1.) He was sentenced to fifty-six years of incarceration, consisting of thirty-two years of initial confinement…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  4. Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  5. In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970

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