Burgess v. Florida Department of Corrections

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA CASE NO. 20-61946-CIV-ALTMAN AL L. BURGESS, Petitioner, v. RICKY D. DIXON, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent.1 ______________________________________/ ORDER Our Petitioner, Al L. Burgess, is a Florida prisoner who’s filed a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging the constitutionality of his state-court conviction and sentence. See Petition [ECF No. 1]. The state courts have uniformly rejected Burgess’s post-conviction motions. Because those courts reasonably applied federal law—and reasonably determined the…