Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Newman v. Rednour
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided November 8, 2012No. Case No. 08-cv-4240PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
ROBERT M. DOW, JR., District Judge.
Following a jury trial, Melvin Newman was found guilty of fatally shooting Andy Dent in July 2001 and sentenced to a 47-year prison term. After launching an unsuccessful direct appeal of the verdict, Newman mounted a similarly unsuccessful collateral attack on his conviction in state court. Using the procedures called for in the Illinois Post-Conviction Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1(a)(1)), he raised three arguments. Only one of those arguments is pressed in *770this federal case, so there is no need to recount the others here.
Newman’s…
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