Legal Opinion
Cheeks v. Gaetz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 7, 2009No. 05-3372PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
During and after Michael Cheeks’s trial for murder and home invasion, he received letters from his former girlfriend, Maria Brown, who was also a witness at trial. These letters, he argues, demonstrate that the government knew Brown testified falsely during his trial about whether he was living at the home where the death occurred, at the time it occurred. Cheeks’s counsel used the letter received during trial that asked why he came “home” to cross examine Brown; nonetheless, a judge convicted him on all counts after a bench trial. When Cheeks received additional…
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- Ball v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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