Battle v. Williams

1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 6 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 7 * * * 8 EVINE BATTLE, Case No. 2:19-cv-00453-GMN-DJA 9 Petitioner, 10 v. ORDER 11 BRIAN WILLIAMS, et al., 12 Respondents. 13 14 15 Before the court for a decision on the merits is a petition for a writ of habeas 16 corpus filed by Evine Battle. ECF No. 7. For reasons that follow, the petition will be 17 denied. 18 I. BACKGROUND1 19 In May 2015, a jury sitting in the Eighth Judicial District Court for Clark County, 20 Nevada, found Battle guilty of burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon, first 21 degree kidnapping with use…