Unpublished Dispositionreginald Williams, Petitioner-appellant, v. William Abshire, Warden, Respondent-appellee, 842 F.2d 334 (6th Cir. 1988)

ORDER

This case has been referred to a panel of the court pursuant to Rule 9(a), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination of the record and briefs, this panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. Fed. R. App. P. 34(a).

Petitioner, a Michigan state prisoner, appeals the district court's judgment which denied his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus.

Petitioner was convicted following a bench trial of felony-murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In his petition, he argued that he received ineffective assistance of counsel and that he was denied due process because the State of Michigan's decision in People v. Aaron, 409 Mich. 672, 299 N.W.2d 304 (1980) was not applied to his case. Upon review, we conclude the district court properly denied the petition.

Accordingly, the district court's judgment is hereby affirmed for the reasons set forth in the district court's opinion dated July 30, 1987. Rule 9(b) (5), Rules of the Sixth Circuit.