Legal Opinion
Holmes v. Buss
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 30, 2007No. 04-3549, 06-2905PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 1992 the petitioner, originally named Eric Holmes but now going by the name Koor An Nur of Katie Mary Brown, was convicted of a pair of murders committed three years earlier, and in 1993 he was sentenced to death. After exhausting his state remedies, he filed the first of the two petitions for federal habeas corpus that are before us (only the first need be discussed, as will become apparent). One of the issues he raised was whether he was competent to assist his lawyer in the habeas corpus proceeding. The district judge, refusing to provide funds to enable the…
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