Legal Opinion
Richardson v. McCann
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided December 4, 2008No. Case 00 C 6425PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHEW F. KENNELLY, District Judge.
In May 1982, Floyd Richardson was charged with the April 1, 1980 armed robbery and murder of George Vrabel, a sales clerk at Twin Food and Liquors on the south side of Chicago. A jury convicted Richardson, and the trial judge sentenced him to death in 1984, after Richardson waived his right to a jury at the penalty phase of his trial. On January 11, 2003, Illinois’ governor commuted Richardson’s death sentence to a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
Richardson’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus has been before the Court once before. The…
2Cases cited82 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Coleman v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Schlup v. DeloSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Murray v. CarrierSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Floyd Richardson v. Michael LemkeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
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