Legal Opinion
Eric Blackmon v. Tarry Williams
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 24, 2016No. 14-3059PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the denial of a habeas corpus petition presents a thicket of procedural and substantive issues arising from a murder on the streets of Chicago. On the Fourth of July in 2002, Tony Cox was standing outside a restaurant when he was gunned down by two men. The gunmen fled, but two women driving cars near the scene saw the murder and the shooters’ faces. Not quite two months later, both women independently chose petitioner Eric Blackmon’s photograph out of arrays, identifying him as the second shooter. They repeated those identifications at a live line-up…
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