Legal Opinion
Robert Muench v. Thomas Israel and Attorney General of Wisconsin, Richard Worthing v. Thomas R. Israel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 1983No. 81-2094, 81-2789PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
The appellants in these consolidated appeals are each serving life prison terms in Wisconsin for first-degree murder. Each filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 claiming that his murder trial was fundamentally unfair because he was not permitted to introduce expert testimony regarding his capacity to form the intent to kill. The courts below denied the petitions. For the reasons which follow, we affirm the judgments of the district courts.
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The following facts surrounding the homicide of which Robert Muench was convicted are not in…
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