Legal Opinion
Gray v. Hardy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 12, 2010No. 07-3704PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Doiakah Gray was convicted of first-degree murder in the State of Illinois and sentenced to an extended-term sentence of 80 years’ imprisonment based on the trial court’s finding that the murder was accompanied by exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty. After the state courts denied collateral relief, Gray petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He argued that the trial court violated his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments by im posing the extended-term sentence without submitting the underlying factual…
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