Legal Opinion
Tommie J. Smith v. Robert A. Farley, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 5, 1995No. 94-3818PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Tommie Smith is under sentence of death in Indiana for murdering a police officer. The district court denied his petition for habeas corpus, and Smith appeals. Three years ago we affirmed the denial of habeas corpus to Smith’s codefendant, Gregory Resnover, who has since been executed. Resnover v. Pearson, 965 F.2d 1453 (7th Cir.1992). To the extent that Smith presents grounds for reversal that are identical to those we resolved against Resnover, we reject them on the authority of our previous decision, for nothing has happened in the interim to warrant a reexamination of…
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