Legal Opinion
Anthony Alexander v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 1997No. 97-9087PublishedCited by 142 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
For the third time since Congress enacted the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, Anthony Alexander has sought to commence a successive collateral attack on his criminal conviction. Before the aedpa took effect, Alexander’s conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, No. 93-3465, 1994 WL 556682 (7th Cir. Oct. 7, 1994) (unpublished order), and he filed a collateral attack, which we rejected, No. 95-2910, 1996 WL 87495 (7th Cir. Feb. 27, 1996) (unpublished order). So the current application is his fourth effort to wage a collateral challenge. Each of the four…
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