Legal Opinion
Walter L. Thomas v. Jerry Gilmore, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 1998No. 97-1854PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Walter Thomas was convicted in an Illinois state court in 1987 of murder, burglary, and aggravated arson, and was sentenced to death.. After exhausting his state remedies, see People v. Thomas, 137 Ill.2d 500, 148 Ill.Dec. 751, 561 N.E.2d 57 (1990); People v. Thomas, 164 Ill.2d 410, 207 Ill.Dec. 490, 647 N.E.2d 983 (1995), he sought federal habeas corpus; lost, 951 F.Supp. 1338 (N.D.Ill.1996); and appeals. His principal challenge is to the adequacy of his lawyer at the sentencing hearing, and we begin there.
The victim discovered Thomas, a 31-year-old employee of a cleaning…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- Teague v. LaneSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Caspari v. BohlenSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Eurus Kelly Waters v. Albert G. Thomas, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1995
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