Legal Opinion
Dishon McNary v. Marcus Hardy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 26, 2013No. 11-2759PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Dishon McNary is currently serving two life sentences, without the possibility of parole, in an Illinois state prison. After failing in state court on both direct appeal and post-conviction review, McNary petitioned the district court for a writ of habe-as corpus. McNary sought relief on the grounds that he received ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsels in his state court proceedings. The district court denied the writ, and we now affirm.
I. Background
The facts presented here come from the witnesses’ testimony at trial and the Illinois Appellate Court’s…
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