Legal Opinion
Stephenson v. Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 2010No. 09-2924PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1997 a jury in an Indiana state court convicted petitioner Stephenson of three murders. The judge sentenced him to death. After exhausting his state remedies, see Stephenson v. State, 742 N.E.2d 463 (Ind.2001) (affirming his conviction and sentence), and 864 N.E.2d 1022 (Ind.2007) (affirming denial of post-conviction relief), he sought a writ of federal habeas corpus. The district judge ruled that he had been denied effective assistance of counsel during both the guilt and penalty phases of the trial (and so she vacated both the conviction and the sentence), because…
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