Daniel Holland v. Kenneth McGinnis Warden, and Michael P. Lane, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

The state appeals from the district court’s grant of Daniel Holland’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

A Cook County jury convicted Holland of deviate sexual assault, rape, armed robbery, and aggravated kidnapping, and the trial judge sentenced him to a lengthy prison term. The Illinois appellate court determined that Holland’s confession, which the prosecution introduced at trial, had been coerced, and reversed the convictions. People v. Holland, 147 Ill.App.3d 323, 100 Ill.Dec. 868, 497 N.E.2d 1230 (1986). The Illinois Supreme Court reversed in turn, finding that…