Legal Opinion
Todd Peterson v. Timothy Douma
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 6, 2014No. 12-2924PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Todd Peterson appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction in Wisconsin state court for sexual assault of a child. His petition raised multiple challenges to the conviction, but we granted a certificate of appealability as to only one: whether his trial attorney’s failure to move to suppress a statement Peterson made to an off-duty police officer deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. See 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c). We conclude that the state court did not unreasonably apply the clearly established law of…
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