Gary James Eagan v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden

BAUER, Chief Judge.

The petitioner, Gary Eagan, appeals from the district court’s order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We reverse and remand.

I

The petitioner was tried and convicted by a Lake County, Indiana jury of attempted murder for stabbing a woman nine times after she refused to have sexual relations with him.

According to the evidence introduced at trial, Eagan and several companions picked up the woman as they drove through Chicago late on the evening of May 16, 1982. Sometime thereafter, Eagan, his friends and the woman met with several other men, all of whom drove…