Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Mahaffey v. Peters
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 5, 1997No. 95 C 6623PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ZAGEL, District Judge.
Jerry Mahaffey and his brother, Reginald invaded the Pueschel home, murdered a husband and a wife and tried hard to murder their eleven-year-old son. This was found by a jury which also decided that he deserved to die for what he had done, and he was sentenced to death. After unsuccessful challenges to the sentence in state court, he seeks to overturn the judgment in federal court. With neither fact nor law to justify his federal claims, he cannot prevail. I deny his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and allow the law to proceed on its stem…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by7 opinions
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