Legal Opinion
Veal v. Cooper
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 26, 1996No. 95 C 7270Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ASPEN, Chief Judge:
Johnnie Veal brings this petition — his third — for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, arguing that ineffective assistance of *512counsel justifies vacating his 1971 murder convictions. Veal is currently serving concurrent one hundred-year minimum imprisonment terms in Illinois state prison. For the reasons set forth below, we dismiss the petition because of the delay in filing, and we alternatively would deny the petition on its merits.
I. Background
We assume familiarity with the three prior published decisions dealing with Veal’s first…
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