United States ex rel. Thomas v. Brierton

MEMORANDUM DECISION

MARSHALL, District Judge.

Petitioner, Franklin Thomas, by a habeas corpus petition brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenges his Illinois state court convictions of armed robbery and murder upon three separate constitutional grounds: (1) denial of effective assistance of trial counsel contrary to the sixth and fourteenth amendments, (2) refusal of the state to disclose (and the state trial court’s failure to order disclosure of) the identity of a witness contrary to the sixth and fourteenth amendments, and (3) the knowing use by the state uof false or perjured…