Legal Opinion
Larry Winsett v. Odie Washington, Warden of Dixon Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 18, 1997No. 94-2891PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Police officers questioned Larry Winsett in violation of his Miranda rights about his role in a murder-for-hire scheme. In this interrogation, Winsett divulged the name of his accomplice, and the State eventually secured the cooperation of this accomplice in the prosecution of Winsett. Winsett argued in state post-conviction proceedings that the accomplice's testimony should have been inadmissible as the “fruit of a poisonous tree” and that his lawyer should have raised this issue on direct appeal. The Illinois Supreme Court rejected these contentions, and Win-sett now…
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