Legal Opinion

Samuel v. Frank

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 12, 2008No. 07-1243PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Stanley Samuel was convicted by a jury in a Wisconsin state court of second-degree sexual assault of a child, interference with child custody, and abduction, Wis. Stat. §§ 948.02(2), 948.31(2), 948.30, and was sentenced to 38 years in prison to be followed by 16 years on probation. After exhausting his state remedies, see State v. Samuel, 252 Wis.2d 26, 643 N.W.2d 423 (Wis.2002), he petitioned for federal habe-as corpus relief, lost, and appeals.

In 1996, the defendant, who was 47 years old, ran off with a 15-year-old girl named Tisha. Their spree began in Wisconsin, but…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
  3. Bell v. ConeSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
  4. Lockyer v. AndradeSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
  5. Colorado v. ConnellySupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. Lopez v. ThurmerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2009
  2. United States v. Styles TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2015
  3. State v. GraySupreme Court of Connecticut · 2022
  4. (HC) Mitchell v. PfeifferDistrict Court, E.D. California · 2020
  5. BARBEE v. WARDEN -- ISPDistrict Court, S.D. Indiana · 2020

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