Legal Opinion
Andre Jones v. Thomas F. Page, Warden, Menard Correctional Center, and James Ryan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 3, 1996No. 95-1200PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Andre Vernell Jones, an Illinois prisoner sentenced to death on murder charges, appeals from a judgment of the district court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Jones and a co-defendant, Freddie Tiller, were indicted in the Circuit Court for St. Clair County, Illinois and charged with the killing of three individuals — Richard Stoltz, Samuel Nersesian, and Debra Brown — in East St. Louis, Illinois on April 30, 1979. The indictment alleged that the defendants acted “without lawful justification and with the intent to kill,” in violation of the Illinois…
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