Legal Opinion
Walker Whatley v. Dushan Zatecky
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 2016No. 14-2534PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Walker Whatley was convicted under a now-repealed Indiana law of possessing a little more than three grams of cocaine within 1000 feet of a “youth program center.” On direct appeal and in federal habe-as corpus proceedings, Whatley challenged the Indiana law on the ground that the statutory definition of “youth program center” was unconstitutionally vague. Although the Indiana Court of Appeals vacated his conviction on other grounds, the Indiana Supreme Court reinstated it. The district court declined to address his habe-as claim on the merits after determining that he…
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