Legal Opinion
James Barksdale v. Michael P. Lane
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 28, 1992No. 89-3705PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
In 1989, James Barksdale brought a ha-beas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to attack collaterally his 1972 state conviction for rape, deviate sexual assault, and aggravated kidnapping. The district court dismissed Mr. Barksdale’s petition on the ground of procedural default. For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we affirm.
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BACKGROUND
A. Underlying Conviction and Earlier Procedural History
We review the complex procedural history of Mr. Barksdale’s case in detail because that history affects the outcome of this appeal. In 1972, Mr. Barksdale was convicted…
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