Legal Opinion

David J. Wilson v. Gary McCaughtry

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided May 20, 1993No. 90-1017PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

David James Wilson filed a petition in the district court for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction in a Wisconsin state trial court for second-degree murder, subsequently affirmed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Wilson alleged that his conviction was obtained in violation of the United States Constitution because the state prosecutor waited sixteen years after the murder before indicting him and because the state trial court failed to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of reckless homicide. We agree with the district court…

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2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. United States v. LovascoSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  2. United States v. GouveiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. United States v. Dale J. Doerr, John Paul Doerr, Josephine Christofalos, Christa D. Pixley, and Archie J. PixleyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
  4. United States v. Joseph R. KollerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
  5. United States v. Jack D. BrocksmithCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993

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3Cited by20 opinions

  1. United States v. Marius CanoyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
  2. Nanette Tucker v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2018
  3. Benjamin Henderson Jones v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Department of Corrections of the Commonwealth of VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1996
  4. State v. DunlapCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1996
  5. United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Kurt Henry Van Engel, Defendant-Appellee/cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993

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