Legal Opinion
Holmes v. Hardy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 11, 2010No. 09-1293PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
After a bench trial, an Illinois court found Tyrone Holmes guilty of murder and sexual assault. Now, more than twenty years later, Holmes seeks federal relief from his life sentence, claiming that the state prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence and suborned perjury. But Holmes procedurally defaulted his claims and cannot otherwise show either that he was insufficiently informed to raise them earlier or that the newly discovered evidence he presents exonerates him. Therefore, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
After an Illinois court convicted Tyrone Holmes for murder and sexual…
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