Legal Opinion
Richardson v. Hardy
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 13, 2012No. Case No. 00 C 6425PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CORRECTED MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MATTHEW F. KENNELLY, District Judge.
Floyd Richardson was tried and convicted in 1984 of the April 1980 armed robbery and murder of George Vrabel, a clerk at a grocery store on the south side of Chicago. The trial judge sentenced Richardson to death after he waived his right to a jury at the penalty phase of his trial. In 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted Richardson’s sentence to a sentence of life without parole.
In February 2004, this Court granted Richardson’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that his conviction was tainted…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Miller-El v. CockrellSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Floyd Richardson v. Michael LemkeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
- Harris v. HardyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2012
- James Drain v. Jeffrey WoodsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2014
- Drain v. WoodsDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2012
- United States ex rel. Newman v. RednourDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2012
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