Legal Opinion
Thomas Yancey v. Jerry D. Gilmore
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 7, 1997No. 96-1977PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Thomas Yancey, an Illinois inmate who in 1975 was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to seventy-five to ninety years in prison, appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
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The facts of the case are outlined in Yancey’s direct state appeal, People v. Yancey, 57 Ill.App.3d 256, 14 Ill.Dec. 790, 372 N.E.2d 1069 (1978). Briefly, the victim, fifteen-year-old William Wilkerson, was shot in the chest and shown (superficially wounded but alive) by Yancey and his eodefendant, Brown, to two juveniles, Dickens and Parks, in…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by22 opinions
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