Francis v. Commissioner of Correction

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT KERMIT FRANCIS, Petitioner, No. 3:18-cv-847 (SRU) v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION, et al.,1 Respondents. ORDER In this remanded habeas action, the Commissioner of Correction (the “Commissioner”) asks me to dismiss Kermit Francis’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Francis is currently serving a 60-year sentence in state custody for his 1996 convictions for murder and carrying a pistol without a permit. In March 2019, I granted the Commissioner’s motion to dismiss Francis’s petition as untimely. See…