Legal Opinion
Jimmie L. Morrison v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden and Attorney General of the State of Indiana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 6, 1990No. 89-1174PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
Jimmie L. Morrison brought this habeas petition to challenge his conviction for child molestation. In an earlier unpublished order, we held that Morrison had exhausted all of his state remedies by procedurally defaulting and remanded for a determination of whether cause and prejudice existed to excuse Morrison’s procedural defaults. The district court determined that Morrison had failed to establish either cause or prejudice. We affirm.
I. Factual Background
In 1983, an Indiana Superior Court convicted Morrison of child molestation. Because Morrison was a…
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