Legal Opinion
Robert R. Cuppett v. Jack R. Duckworth, Superintendent, Indiana State Reformatory
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 8, 1993No. 89-1896PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Robert Russell Cuppett filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the district court challenging as unconstitutional the enhancement of his Indiana sentence for a robbery conviction. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The enhancement, which increased Cuppett’s sentence from ten to forty years, was based on a finding that he was a habitual offender under Indiana law. The district court denied Cup-pett’s habeas petition. We affirm.
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Cuppett has committed felony offenses in three different states. On September 10, 1962, he and two others were indicted in a West Virginia state court for…
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