Legal Opinion
Weaver v. Nicholson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 15, 2018No. 16-2400PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Wendell Weaver was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to forty *881years' imprisonment. In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, he alleges that his constitutional rights were violated by the trial court's disqualification of his counsel of choice, the ineffective assistance of his replacement counsel, the state's use of certain testimony at trial, and the trial court's admission of "other crimes" evidence. The district court denied the petition. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Previous state court decisions exhaustively relate Weaver's case. (R. 20-16, Order affirming…
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