Legal Opinion
James Edward Wilks v. Thomas Israel, Warden, Wisconsin State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 22, 1980No. 79-2504PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Following his conviction for attempted murder in a Wisconsin state court, petitioner James Edward Wilks sought a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The federal district court refused to issue the writ and petitioner appealed. On appeal petitioner contends that he was denied his constitutional right to counsel, that the refusal of the state trial judge to recuse himself from the case deprived petitioner of due process, and that the trial judge’s refusal to accept his proffered guilty plea to a lesser included offense deprived him of…
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