Legal Opinion
Anthony Porter v. Richard B. Gramley, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 17, 1997No. 96-2205PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Anthony Porter was sentenced to death in 1983 for a double murder committed in Chicago in 1982. Porter’s case reached the Illinois Supreme Court on direct appeal in 1986 and on postconvietion review in 1995, but Porter was unsuccessful both times. A federal district court refused to grant Porter a writ of habeas corpus last year, and Porter now appeals that judgment. He asserts that he was denied his right to effective assistance of counsel and his right to an impartial jury at his state trial. After disposing of numerous procedural objections, we reach the merits of both…
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