Legal Opinion
Cookson v. Schwartz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 23, 2009No. 08-1181PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Donald Cookson was convicted in Illinois state court of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. His conviction was affirmed by the Illinois Appellate Court and the Supreme Court of Illinois. He filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States. That petition was denied. Mr. Cookson then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The district court denied the petition. We granted Mr. Cookson a certificate of appealability, and we now affirm the district…
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