Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Acevedo
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 14, 2009No. 19-3109PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
William Johnson is serving sentences aggregating 50 years’ imprisonment for armed robbery, aggravated battery, and use of a weapon by a convicted felon. A jury in Illinois convicted him of these offenses following a trial at which one of his cousins, plus two employees of a McDonald’s restaurant, testified that he entered the restaurant with a sawed-off shotgun and robbed the cash registers, shooting and injuring one of the employees in the process. Johnson testified at trial that he had been buying auto supplies while his cousin robbed the restaurant. A federal…
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