Legal Opinion
Brewer v. Aiken
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 14, 1991No. 90-2530PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
James Brewer was convicted of murder February 17, 1978, after a jury trial and was sentenced to death on March 1, 1978, in accordance with the jury’s recommendation. After exhausting his state court remedies, see Brewer v. State, 496 N.E.2d 371 (Ind.1986) (Brewer II), Brewer petitioned the federal district court for a writ of habe-as corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court rejected Brewer’s assertion that the guilt phase of his trial was constitutionally defective, but found that Brewer received ineffective assistance of counsel during the penalty phase…
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