Lowe v. Devine

ORDER

Everett Lowe is serving a 65-year prison sentence in Illinois for attempted first-degree murder. Lowe had entered a police station with a gun and tried to shoot an officer in the head, but the weapon jammed. The trial court issued a mittimus (an order directing jailers to carry out the judgment) identifying the statutory citation for first-degree murder but not for the crime of attempt, and although the mitti-mus was amended to include the missing citation, Lowe has long insisted that he was wrongly convicted of murder instead of attempted murder. He sought collateral relief in state and…