Legal Opinion
Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 14, 2015No. 13-1318PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
In 1997 Joseph Corcoran shot and killed four men at his home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A jury convicted him .of four counts of murder and recommended the death penalty. The trial judge agreed and imposed a death sentence in accordance with the jury’s recommendation. After his appeals in state court had rim their course, Corcoran sought federal habeas relief on multiple grounds. • We resolved some of his claims in earlier opinions and Corcoran has abandoned others; only two issues remain. Corcoran argues that the trial judge impermissibly relied on nonstatutory aggravating…
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