Legal Opinion
Robert G. Kavanagh v. Gerald Berge, Superintendent, Fox Lake Correctional Institution, and James Doyle, Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 10, 1996No. 95-1795PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Robert G. Kavanagh appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition for a writ of habeas corpus (“habeas petition”). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
In 1989, a jury convicted Kavanagh of one count of first-degree sexual assault on his young nephew. The jury acquitted Kav-anagh of another sexual assault count involving the same victim. The trial court sentenced Kavanagh to 15 years imprisonment. After exhausting his state post-conviction remedies, Kavanagh filed a federal habeas petition. In the petition, Kavanagh argued that: (1) his trial attorney, Christopher…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Lockhart v. FretwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Keeney v. Tamayo-ReyesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Joseph Rodriguez v. Howard A. Peters, Iii, Director, Department of Corrections, State of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by38 opinions
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