Bill Williams v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden, and the Indiana Attorney General

PELL, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner-appellant Bill Williams appeals from the judgment of the district court dismissing his habeas petition.

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Williams was convicted in 1977 on charges of rape, sodomy, and incest. The victims were his nine and ten year old daughters and the offenses apparently took place over a period of some two or three years. On direct appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court, petitioner raised a number of issues but only one was addressed by the Court which reversed the conviction and remanded for a new trial because the trial judge had merely handed the jury instructions to the…