Legal Opinion
Marshall Jackson v. Jack R. Duckworth
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 1997No. 94-3016PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
This appeal calls upon us to decide whether a state prisoner can invoke federal habeas corpus relief to redress a state court’s inordinate delay in hearing and deciding a state petition for post-conviction relief. We recently addressed this very issue in Montgomery v. Meloy, 90 F.3d 1200, 1206 (7th Cir.), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 117 S.Ct. 266, 136 L.Ed.2d 190 (1996), and held that federal habeas corpus does not supply a remedy in such a situation. As a result, we must deny Jackson’s petition.
I. History
In June of 1980, Marshall Jackson was convicted of felony murder and is…
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