Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Harold D. Maxey and Robert P. Maxey v. Ernest Morris, Warden, Etc., and Charles Rowe, Director, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 31, 1979No. 78-1228PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
Appellants were found guilty of murder in a 1973 state court jury trial, and sentenced to indeterminate terms of 30 to 60 years in the Illinois State Penitentiary. After unsuccessfully appealing their convictions in the Illinois courts, appellants filed a federal habeas corpus petition 1 arguing that because certain evidence seized pursuant to an allegedly invalid search warrant was not suppressed at their trial their Fourth Amendment rights had been violated.
The district court dismissed the petition for the writ of habeas corpus. United States ex rel. Maxey v. Morris,…
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