Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Charles Clark v. James Fike
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 1976No. 75-1787PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.
This habeas corpus case primarily concerns instances of prosecutorial misconduct committed during petitioner’s trial in state court which allegedly deprived petitioner of a fair trial.
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The petitioner, Charles Clark, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1967 murder of an off-duty Chicago policeman killed near a southside shopping center. On direct appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, his conviction was affirmed but the sentence of death was vacated because the Illinois death penalty statute had been held unconstitutional in Moore v. Illinois, 408 U.S. 786, 800,…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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