Legal Opinion
David Leon Woods v. Daniel R. McBride Superintendent
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 30, 2005No. 04-1776PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
In the early morning of April 7, 1984, David Woods and two cohorts, Greg Sloan and Pat Sweet, concocted a scheme to steal a television. A few hours later, Woods, Sloan, and Sweet went to the apartment of seventy-seven-year-old Juan Placencia, an acquaintance of Woods’s mother. Woods was armed with a knife, although he assured Sloan and Sweet that he intended only to scare Placencia with it. But when Placencia opened his front door, Woods immediately jumped inside and stabbed Placencia repeatedly. Placencia fell back into a chair, pleading for his life. Placencia’s pleas…
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3Cited by46 opinions
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