Legal Opinion
Johnny Neal, Jr. v. Richard B. Gramley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 16, 1997No. 96-1452PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A state prisoner who is under sentence of death appeals from the denial of federal ha-beas corpus. One night back in 1982 Johnny Neal entered the home of a neighbor with whom he was friendly, Lillian Waid, a 63-year-old widow, robbed her, and, though she put up no resistance, bashed in her head with a length of lead pipe filled with concrete and then stabbed her. The principal ground on which he seeks relief is that his lawyer rendered ineffective assistance of counsel at the hearing in 1983 in which a jury sentenced him to death. She did this, Neal argues, by failing to…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by38 opinions
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