Johnson v. Maryland

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WATKINS, District Judge.

Petitioner, presently incarcerated in the Maryland Penitentiary, seeks for the fifth time in this court the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. At the tim^ of his third petition to this court, which petition was denied as premature because petitioner then had pending in the state court a motion for a new trial, this court stated:

“Clearly petitioner is still pursuing presently available state remedies. Moreover, should he be unsuccessful in obtaining the new trial that he now seeks, he would have available further state relief by seeking…