Legal Opinion
Corcoran v. Buss
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 31, 2008No. 07-2093, 07-2182PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
On July 26, 1997, Joseph Corcoran shot and killed four men: his brother Jim Cor-coran, his sister’s fiancé Robert Scott Turner, Timothy Bricker, and Doug Stillwell. An Indiana state court jury convicted Cor-coran of four counts of murder. The trial court agreed with the jury’s determination and sentenced Corcoran to death. Corcor-an exhausted his state court direct appeals and waived state post-conviction review. In 2005, Corcoran filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, claiming that his Sixth…
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