Legal Opinion
James T. Foster v. James M. Schomig, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 24, 2000No. 99-1398, 99-1482PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
James Foster was convicted by an Illinois jury of murdering his girlfriend by beating her with a baseball bat, and was sentenced to death because he also sexually assaulted her by forcing pieces of the broken bat into her rectum. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed and denied collateral relief. He brought this Section 2254 motion to argue that his counsel were ineffective for, among other things, failing to call a psychiatrist to testify during the sentencing phase of his trial. He asserts that had such an expert been called, he would have informed the court that Foster…
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