Legal Opinion
United States of America, Ex Rel. Phil Shaw v. Richard De Robertis, Warden and Neil Hartigan, Illinois Attorney General
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 20, 1985No. 84-1380PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of a writ of habeas corpus to Phil Shaw, a prisoner at Stateville Correctional Center, Joliet, Illinois, on grounds that the prosecutor’s improper comment during closing argument concerning a police report not admitted into evidence deprived Shaw of a fair trial, in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. 581 F.Supp. 1397. We affirm.
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