Legal Opinion
Salyer v. Sternes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 30, 2002No. 01-3967PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
In 1997 an Illinois state court convicted Nicholas L. Salyer after a bench trial of residential burglary and battery. The court then sentenced him to concurrent terms of 30 years’ imprisonment for burglary and 364 days’ imprisonment for battery. After exhausting his state remedies, Salyer filed a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied Salyer relief but granted a certificate of appealability on one claim: whether trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by faffing to seek a discharge of his case pursuant to the Illinois Speedy Trial Act, 725 ILCS…
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