Legal Opinion
Harry Gosier v. George Welborn, Warden, Menard Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 15, 1999No. 98-2806PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
After breaking into the home where his estranged wife Lesia was living with her parents and her sister Soynda, Harry Go- sier slew Soynda, had sexual relations with her corpse, and lay in wait for Lesia. On arriving she was raped in the presence of their 3}é-year-old daughter India, then bound and gagged until Lesia’s mother Mae Halcrombe came home. India begged Gosier not to kill her grandmother, but he shot Mae three times in the head, making sure that both Lesia and India knew what was happening. Gosier was charged with two murders and two aggravated sexual…
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3Cited by49 opinions
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