Legal Opinion
Lester B. Mason v. Salvador Godinez, Warden, Stateville Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 3, 1995No. 93-1213PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Lester Mason, convicted of armed robbery by the State of Illinois and sentenced as a habitual criminal to life imprisonment, 1 appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment when his trial counsel failed to file a motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless entry and search of his home. Also, he contends that the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to convict him of armed robbery beyond a reasonable…
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