Hallford v. Culliver

MEMORANDUM OPINION

COODY, Chief United States Magistrate Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

On November 1, 1995, the Petitioner, Phillip Hallford, an Alabama inmate under sentence of death, filed a petition 1 in this court seeking habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In its answer to the petition, the State of Alabama responded that many of the claims raised by Hall-ford were precluded from review because they were procedurally defaulted. On June 11, 1999, the court directed that this case proceed in two stages, the first of which was to determine which claims should be denied on procedural…