United States Ex Rel. Broadnax v. De Robertis

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

Petitioner Leroy Broadnax is serving an extended term of fourteen years at State-ville Correctional Center following his conviction for robbery. Petitioner took a direct appeal of his conviction to the Illinois Appellate Court, Second District, on two grounds: (1) that he was denied effective assistance of trial counsel because counsel failed to present any evidence in support of pretrial motions challenging the constitutionality of the composition of the grand and petit juries involved in his trial; and (2) that his extended term sentence of fourteen…