Legal Opinion
In the Matter of William Hicks v. Jack R. Duckworth and Attorney General of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 9, 1988No. 88-2683PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
William Hicks, a prisoner in an Indiana state prison, applied to a federal district court in Indiana for habeas corpus, contending that he was being imprisoned in consequence of an unconstitutional conviction that he had received in Nevada — a conviction the Indiana state courts had used to convict him as a habitual offender. Upon motion by the Attorney General of Indiana, the district court ordered the case transferred to a federal district court in Nevada on the ground that a federal district court in Indiana was a “most inconvenient forum to examine a conviction under…
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