Legal Opinion
Kenneth Eaglin v. George C. Welborn and Roland W. Burris
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 1995No. 93-1561PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILL, District Judge.
This is an appeal from the District Court’s grant of Eaglin’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The facts are largely undisputed.
FACTS
Petitioner, Kenneth Eaglin, was convicted in 1990 by a jury of solicitation of murder for hire and sentenced to 34 years imprisonment. At trial, he sought both to deny that he had knowingly committed the crime and also to assert the defense that his actions were the product of entrapment by a police informant and a police officer.
The state court trial judge, relying on the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in People v. Gillespie,…
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- Mathews v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Gilmore v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
- Stevenson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Kenneth Eaglin v. George C. Welborn, Warden, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995
- Kenneth Eaglin v. George C. Welborn, Warden, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995