Legal Opinion
Ronald Williams v. Al C. Parke
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 1998No. 97-1612PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAIRCHILD, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Williams was convicted by a jury in Indiana state court of one count of possessing a sawed-off shotgun and one count of first-degree murder and was sentenced to forty-five years’ imprisonment. He filed a habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 which the district court denied. Williams appeals and we affirm.
Williams was convicted of murdering his estranged wife’s lover, Gene Thompson, in front of the grocery store where Thompson and Williams’s wife worked. He now seeks collateral relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claiming that the Indiana trial court…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Lindh v. MurphySupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Tafford Lee Holman, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Jerry D. Gilmore, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
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3Cited by40 opinions
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