Alexander v. Lawrence

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KORY ALEXANDER, ) ) Petitioner, ) 19 C 538 ) vs. ) Judge Gary Feinerman ) ALEX JONES, Acting Warden, Menard Correctional ) Center, ) ) Respondent. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Kory Alexander, an Illinois prisoner serving a forty-year sentence for the first-degree murder of Darion Mason, petitions for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Doc. 1. The habeas petition is denied, and a certificate of appealability will not issue. Background A federal habeas court presumes that state court factual…