Legal Opinion
Stephen Toliver v. Gary McCaughtry
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 6, 2012No. 11-1577PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
The State of Wisconsin appeals the district court’s decision to grant Stephen To-liver a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Mr. Toliver is serving a life sentence for the 1992 murder of Tina Rogers. His petition raises many claims, but here the parties focus on two: whether his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective because counsel did not call at trial two exculpatory witnesses, and whether the prosecution failed to disclose to Mr. Toliver an exculpatory document. During the first appeal of this case, we held, with respect to the…
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