Legal Opinion
Dean A. Phegley v. James Greer, Warden, and William J. Scott, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 19, 1982No. 81-1040PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
Habeas corpus petitioner Phegley, an indigent Illinois state prisoner, was convicted of murdering the two-year-old son of a woman with whom he was living at the time of the alleged offense and was sentenced to 50 to 100 years in the penitentiary. Viewed in the light most favorable to the state, the evidence at his murder trial tended to show that the child had lapsed into a coma within a few days of being violently shaken by petitioner and that the child subsequently died as a result of intracranial bleeding associated with an acute subdural hematoma. After his…
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