United States Ex Rel. Willhite v. Walls

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ALESIA, District Judge.

Before the court is respondent’s motion to dismiss petitioner’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. For the following reasons, the court grants in part and denies in part respondent’s motion to dismiss.

I. BACKGROUND

On January 9, 1998, a jury in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois convicted petitioner Pierre Willhite (“Willhite”) of first-degree murder. As a result, Willhite was sentenced to consecutive terms of imprisonment of sixty years for his murder conviction and an additional six years for a home invasion conviction. Willhite…