Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Jackson v. Gramley
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided November 19, 1990No. 90 C 4573Published
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NORGLE, District Judge.
Before the court is the petition of William Jackson for a writ of habeas corpus. For the following reasons, the court finds that this petition constitutes an abuse of the writ and, pursuant to Rule 9(b), the petition is denied.
*363Petitioner alleges that his November 11, 1977 murder conviction is unconstitutional, due to ineffective assistance of both trial and appellate counsel. The petition currently before the court is the petitioner’s sixth habeas petition.
Under the rules governing habeas petitions, a district court may dismiss a second or successive petition if…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Price v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Kuhlmann v. WilsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Charles Jones v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983
- Marvin Edwin Johnson v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1990
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