Legal Opinion
Ronald E. Burt v. Alan M. Uchtman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 6, 2005No. 04-1293PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Ronald Burt was sentenced to death for the murders of H. Steven Roy and Kevin Muto. His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment when the Governor of Illinois granted clemency to all death row inmates. Burt was tried before a jury, but near the end of the state’s case-in-chief he abruptly changed his plea to guilty without any concessions from the government and against the strenuous advice of his attorneys. During the more than 14 months between his arrest and guilty plea, Burt was taking a number of powerful psychotropic medications prescribed for him by prison…
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