Legal Opinion
George Del Vecchio, Cross-Appellee v. Illinois Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 19, 1994No. 92-2553, 92-2622PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge, joined by POSNER, BAUER, COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, and KANNE.
An Illinois state court sentenced George Del Vecchio to death after convicting him of murdering a six-year-old boy. He filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the district court, claiming that the proceedings leading to his death sentence were constitutionally deficient. The district court denied all of Del Vecchio’s constitutional claims except one: the district court determined that Del Vecchio was entitled to an evidentiary hearing to test the voluntariness of a confession he had given for an earlier…
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