Legal Opinion
Bynum v. Lemmon
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 27, 2009No. 07-2634PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
A Lake County, Indiana court convicted Cleveland Bynum of murdering five people and sentenced him to 300 years’ imprisonment. Bynum filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, contending that his trial counsel was ineffective in failing to put him on the stand at the hearing on his motion to suppress his post-arrest confessions to the murders. Bynum contends that his confession was coerced and that, had he testified about the coercion, the trial court would have granted his motion to suppress. The district court denied Bynum’s petition and,…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Bell v. ConeSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
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