United States Ex Rel. Whitehead v. Page

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ANN CLAIRE WILLIAMS, District Judge.

John Whitehead is under sentence of death. He requests the court to appoint counsel for him to prepare a federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed Whitehead’s conviction on direct review on June 5, 1987. Whitehead thereafter filed for state post-conviction relief which the trial court denied. The appeal from the denial of his postconviction petition currently is pending in the Illinois Supreme Court. The case had been scheduled for oral argument at the time Whitehead presented his motion…