CASE PREVIEW · United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Solloway v Douglas
Ineffective-assistance and recantation-based innocence claims fail in federal habeas
Decided
The citation
Solloway v Douglas, opinion and order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, issued November 9, 2026 (Case No. 2:18-CV-11679-TGB-PTM)
From the case summary
Following a bench trial, Solloway received a life sentence for first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving his nine-year-old son. The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed that conviction. Solloway sought § 2254 relief for ineffective assistance of trial counsel and later added an actual-innocence claim based on…
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