Cole v. Lemke

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CORZELL COLE, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) No. 13 C 6764 v. ) ) Judge Sara L. Ellis RANDY PFISTER, Warden, ) Stateville Correctional Center,1 ) ) Respondent. ) OPINION AND ORDER Petitioner Corzell Cole, currently incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center, is serving a thirty-five year sentence for first degree murder and a consecutive term of fifteen years for attempted first degree murder. Cole has petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Because Cole’s claims that the evidence was…