Legal Opinion
Nicole Harris v. Sheryl Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 2012No. 12-1088PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Illinois prisoner Nicole Harris was convicted in an Illinois state court of murdering her four-year-old son, Jaquari Dancy, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. It is undisputed that Jaquari died from asphyxiation and that the instrument of death was an elastic band that had come loose from a fitted bed sheet. The parties also agree that Jaquari was not alone when he died. His five-year-old brother Diante was in the top bunk of the bed the two shared. On the day of Jaquari’s death, Harris disciplined the boys for leaving the apartment while she was across the…
2Cases cited121 opinions
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- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
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- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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