Legal Opinion
Morales v. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 2011No. 10-1696PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Efrain Morales was convicted by a jury in Illinois state court of one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. His cumulative sentence was ninety years in prison. Morales filed two post-conviction petitions in Illinois state courts, but obtained no relief. He filed a federal habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, claiming, inter alia, that he was deprived of his constitutional right to effective assistance of trial counsel and that the prosecution knowingly obtained his conviction on the basis of perjured testimony. The district…
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