Thomas v. Hardy

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JEROME THOMAS, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) No. 11 C 4268 v. ) ) Judge Sara L. Ellis SHERWIN MILES, Acting Warden, ) Stateville Correctional Center,1 ) ) Respondent. ) OPINION AND ORDER Petitioner Jerome Thomas, who is currently incarcerated at Stateville Correctional Center, is serving a life sentence for two counts of first degree murder and a thirty-year concurrent sentence for one count of home invasion. Thomas has petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Thomas raises three grounds of…