Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Patterson v. Neal
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided January 27, 1988No. 87 C 4502PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MORAN, District Judge.
Larry Patterson, an inmate at Danville Correctional Center, serving a 30-year sentence for murder, petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner claims his conviction was constitutionally infirm because (1) he was denied effective assistance of counsel, and (2) the state’s attorney knowingly relied on perjured testimony to convict him. Danville Warden Michael Neal asserts that petitioner waived these claims because he did not present them in state court and has not shown cause for or prejudice from his failure to…
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