Legal Opinion
Joseph Eckstein v. Phil Kingston, 1
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 16, 2006No. 05-2929PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Joseph Eckstein solicited a woman to murder his wife, and he taped two of the conversations in which he did so. As did the police. Unsurprisingly, after a bench trial in Brown County Circuit Court in Wisconsin, Eckstein was convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree homicide and solicitation to commit first-degree homicide. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison on the conspiracy charge and to 10 years for the solicitation charge, to be served concurrently.
In a federal habeas corpus petition, Eck-stein is now trying to convince us that the Wisconsin Court of Appeals…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Slack v. McDanielSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Lockhart v. FretwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Kimmelman v. MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Mitchell v. EsparzaSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by37 opinions
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