Legal Opinion
Allen v. Chandler
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 11, 2009No. 07-1403PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
The General Store in Joliet, Illinois, was the scene of an armed robbery on the night of October 26, 1990, and the store clerk on duty Cheryl Smithson identified Darryl Allen as the perpetrator — first from a photographic array and also during his two state trials. The first of the two trials ended in a deadlocked jury, but the second trial resulted with Allen being convicted of armed robbery, which was upheld on appeal. In the petitioner’s initial appeal of his conviction he alleged that his trial counsel was ineffective for eliciting testimony from Detective Farmer…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Yarborough v. GentrySupreme Court of the United States · 2003
- People v. PiatkowskiIllinois Supreme Court · 2007
- Obriecht v. RaemischCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
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3Cited by74 opinions
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