Legal Opinion
Stewart v. Peters
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 19, 1991No. 89 C 8761PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
NORGLE, District Judge.
Before the court is the petition of Walter Stewart (“Stewart”) for a writ of habeas corpus. For the following reasons, the petition is granted.
FACTS
Stewart is currently under a death sentence for two murders, an attempted murder, and other offenses committed during a February 10, 1980 armed robbery of the Empire Jewelry Store in Berwyn, Illinois. 1 On July 31, 1980, Stewart pleaded guilty to eleven charges arising from the robbery (six counts of murder, one attempted murder count, and four armed robbery counts), while seven other charges for which he was indicted…
2Cases cited28 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Blackledge v. AllisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Walter Stewart v. Howard Peters, IIICourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
- People v. M.W.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1993
- Stewart v. PetersDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1995