Legal Opinion
Timothy Cossel v. Charles Miller
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 12, 2000No. 98-1355PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Timothy Cossel filed this habeas corpus petition challenging his 1989 state convictions for rape, criminal confinement, criminal deviate conduct, battery, and burglary, in part on the ground that his trial counsel rendered constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to properly object to testimony by the victim relating to her identification of him as her attacker. In state post-conviction proceedings, the state courts rejected this claim, reasoning that the victim had an independent basis for her in-court identification of Cossel, which eliminates…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- O'Sullivan v. BoerckelSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
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