Anthony Fawcett v. Stephen E. Bablitch

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Anthony Fawcett is on probation following his conviction on two charges of sexual contact with a minor. The sentence was two years' imprisonment on the first charge followed by ten years’ probation on the second. Wisconsin’s court of appeals affirmed, State v. Fawcett, 145 Wis.2d 244, 426 N.W.2d 91 (1988), and by the time the state’s supreme court declined to review the case, the imprisonment was over. More than two years after he walked out of prison, Fawcett began this collateral attack under 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

Section 2254 authorizes challenges to custody, and…