Stewart v. State

OPINION

Patchett, J.

Claimant, Walter Stewart, is an inmate in custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections. Mr. Stewart has pled guilty to a charge of murder and had been sentenced to death.

On March 2, 1984, Mr. Stewart was incarcerated at Menard Correctional Center. At about 1:30 p.m., he was in the recreation yard with two other death-row inmates. Mr. Stewart was attacked. During the attack, he blacked out. When he regained consciousness, he was inside a building, lying on the floor with correctional staff and medical staff around him. He does not remember being stabbed.

He was…