Legal Opinion
Gerald Wayne Phelps v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden, Indiana State Prison, and Linley E. Pearson, Attorney General of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 27, 1985No. 84-1052PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MYRON L. GORDON, Senior District Judge.
The petitioner, Gerald Wayne Phelps, was convicted of kidnapping and rape in October 1974 for which he received concurrent sentences of life imprisonment and two to twenty-one years. The conviction was affirmed by the Indiana Supreme Court. Phelps v. State, 266 Ind. 66, 360 N.E.2d 191, cert. denied, 434 U.S. 844, 98 S.Ct. 146, 54 L.Ed.2d 110 (1977).
In 1978, Mr. Phelps filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. The petitioner alleged that his…
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