Weeks v. Gomez

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CARAIL WEEKS (M-09289), ) ) Petitioner, ) ) No. 19 C 6833 v. ) ) Hon. John Z. Lee DAVID GOMEZ, ) ) Respondent. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER A stray bullet from a drive-by shooting killed fourteen-year-old Starkeshia Reed while she was getting ready for school on the morning of March 3, 2006. Three years later, a Cook County jury convicted Petitioner Carail Weeks of first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with the shooting. Now a prisoner at Stateville Correctional Center, Weeks brings…