Legal Opinion
Smith v. McKee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 16, 2010No. 09-1744PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
This case comes to us on appeal from a denial of a petition for habeas corpus. On March 9, 1995, an Illinois jury found petitioner, Joseph Smith, guilty of first-degree murder and attempted robbery. The trial court sentenced Smith to fifty-five years for the murder charge and fourteen years for the attempted armed robbery charge, to run concurrently. Smith brings this habeas petition to challenge his conviction on three grounds: ineffective assistance of trial counsel, ineffective assistance of appellate counsel, and violation of his Sixth Amendment right to confront his…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Crawford v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Schlup v. DeloSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
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3Cited by128 opinions
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