Legal Opinion
Rodney D. Barnhill v. Mary Flannigan, and Attorney General of the State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 14, 1994No. 94-1326PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner Rodney D. Barnhill (“Barnhill”), an Illinois state prisoner, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habe-as corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition, Barnhill attacked the circumstances of his plea, the effectiveness of his trial and appellate counsel, the constitutionality of the statute used to enhance his sentence, and the application of the statute to this case. The district court rejected each of these claims. We affirm.
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On July 9, 1986, Barnhill entered a plea of guilty but mentally ill to the charge of murder. 1 At the…
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