Legal Opinion
Harrison Fagan v. Odie Washington, Warden, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 5, 1991No. 91-2118, 91-2215PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The State of Illinois appeals from two separate orders by the district court granting habeas corpus relief to petitioner Fagan, who is serving a twenty-five year prison term for murder. One order directs the state either to grant him a new appeal because his appellate counsel was ineffective or to release him. The other order directs the state to release him unconditionally, on the ground that no reasonable fact-finder could have found Fagan guilty of murder (under the state’s theory of murder) beyond a reasonable doubt.
In the summer of 1983, Fagan, a member of a gang…
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