Legal Opinion
Alvoil Cawley v. George E. Detella and Jim Ryan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 7, 1995No. 94-2536PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
In 1978 Alvoil Cawley was convicted of murder in Illinois state court for his role in the fatal shooting of James Duncan on December 9, 1977, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. After the denial of both his direct appeal and his post-conviction appeal in state court, Cawley filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied the petition, finding that Cawley had procedurally defaulted the arguments made in the petition. We affirm.
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In his direct appeal Cawley challenged the sufficiency of the evidence, the basis for his…
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