Legal Opinion
Lorenzo Wilson v. Kenneth R. Briley, .
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 5, 2001No. 00-1277PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROYNER, Circuit Judge.
In his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, Lorenzo Wilson asserted that the state court which sentenced him to a term of life imprisonment for murder violated his constitutional rights to trial by jury, due process, and to be free from double jeopardy when it found that he set out for the scene of the crime with the intent to murder two men. The district court dismissed the petition, finding that Wilson procedurally defaulted this claim. We agree and affirm.
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Wilson shot two men to death in 1981. He contended that he did so in self-defense, but the State…
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