United States ex rel. Galvan v. DeRobertis

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

David Galvan (“Galvan”), an inmate at Stateville Penitentiary serving an eight to twenty year sentence for rape, petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, claiming his conviction was constitutionally deficient in six separate respects. Stateville Warden Richard DeRobertis (“DeRobertis”) has moved for summary judgment on alternative grounds that (1) Galvan has failed to exhaust administrative remedies as to some of his claims and waived his right to relief on others or (2) Galvan’s claims are substantively…