Legal Opinion
Jose C. Rodriguez v. Warren Young, Warden, Waupun Correctional Institution
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 1990No. 89-1817PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILL, Senior District Judge.
Following a jury trial in Circuit Court in Milwaukee in 1976, Jose C. Rodriguez was convicted of first degree murder on the basis of an identification by a single witness and sentenced to life imprisonment. The appeals process has been long and exhaustive. Fourteen years later, in this, his second petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Rodriguez asks for relief on nine separate grounds, raising substantial questions about the admissibility of the sole identification testimony, the effectiveness of his counsel’s assistance at trial, and the constitutionality of the…
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