Legal Opinion
D.H. Fleenor v. Ron Anderson, Superintendent of Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 7, 1999No. 98-1916PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1098POSNER, Chief Judge.
In 1983 an Indiana state court convicted D.H. Fleenor of murder and sentenced him to death. After exhausting his state remedies, see Fleenor v. State, 514 N.E.2d 80 (Ind.1987); Fleenor v. State, 622 N.E.2d 140 (Ind.1993), he sought federal habeas corpus, lost, and appeals. The only challenges, here as in the district court, are to the sentence. District Judge Hamilton wrote a 97-page opinion; lucid and meticulous, the opinion thoroughly discusses and soundly resolves all the issues presented by Fleenor’s highly competent and experienced counsel. We discuss only two issues,…
2Cases cited22 opinions
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- Satterwhite v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Buchanan v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Alan L. Matheney v. Rondle AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2001
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