Banks v. Butler

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION LOUIS BANKS, B51155, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) No. 15 C 7518 v. ) ) Judge Sara L. Ellis SCOTT THOMPSON, Acting Warden, ) Pinckneyville Correctional Center,1 ) ) Respondent. ) OPINION AND ORDER Petitioner Louis Banks, who is currently incarcerated at Pinckneyville Correctional Center, is serving a forty-year sentence for attempted first degree murder and a concurrent twenty-year sentence for armed robbery. Banks has petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus under

28 U.S.C. § 2254.2

Although the Court reaches his…