Legal Opinion
McDonald v. Page
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 2, 2001No. 00-3239PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
After a jury trial Donald McDonald was found guilty of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s thirteen-year-old daughter. Because Mr. McDonald had prior felony convictions, he was sentenced as a habitual offender under Illinois law to life imprisonment. After exhausting his state remedies, Mr. McDonald filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied relief but granted a certificate of appealability (CA) on Mr. McDonald’s claim that the Illinois habitual offender sentencing provision is applied in a racially discriminatory manner and therefore violates the Equal…
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