Legal Opinion
Kennedy v. Pinkney
District Court, C.D. Illinois
Decided July 31, 1979No. 78-1234PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
ROBERT D. MORGAN, Chief Judge.
An Illinois jury found petitioner guilty of rape, after a previous jury had been unable to reach a verdict on that charge while acquitting him of deviate sexual assault arising from the same incident. The Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District, affirmed the conviction, one justice writing a strong dissent, 60 Ill.App.3d 947, 18 Ill.Dec. 345, 377 N.E.2d 830 (1978). The Supreme Court of Illinois denied the petition for leave to appeal, 71 Ill.2d 612 (1978), and petitioner now seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He properly…
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