Legal Opinion
Sims v. Hyatte
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 27, 2018No. 18-1573PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Bauer, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant Mack Sims seeks a writ of habeas corpus, arguing his due process rights were violated because the state withheld evidence favorable to his case. In November of 1993, security guard Shane Carey was shot in Elkhart, Indiana. Approximately fifteen to twenty minutes after the shooting, the Elkhart police found Mack Sims near a walking path around twenty feet from where the shooting occurred. After Carey identified him at trial as the shooter, Sims was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 35 years. In 2012, during a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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