HOLIFIELD v. ROY (2019)

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Ricky Donell HOLIFIELD Petitioner - Appellant v. Commissioner Tom ROY Respondent - Appellee

No. 18-3291

Decided: August 02, 2019

Before COLLOTON, WOLLMAN, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.

Ricky Donell Holifield, Pro Se Matthew Frank, Assistant Attorney General, Edwin William Stockmeyer, Attorney General's Office, Appeals Division, Saint Paul, MN, Brittany D. Lawonn, Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minneapolis, MN, for Respondent - Appellee

[Unpublished]

Ricky Holifield, who was sentenced to 108 months in prison after a Minnesota jury found him guilty of second-degree sale of drugs, see State v. Holifield, No. A15-0899, 2016 WL 7439083 (Minn. Ct. App. Dec. 27, 2016) (unpublished opinion), appeals the district court's ¹ order denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition. Because we agree with the district court that the Minnesota Court of Appeals properly applied Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), in assessing and rejecting Holifield's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, we affirm for the reasons relied on by the district court. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

FOOTNOTES

1. The Honorable David S. Doty, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable David T. Schultz, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.

PER CURIAM.

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