Legal Opinion
Woods v. Schwartz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 9, 2009No. 08-1234PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Forrest Woods was convicted in Illinois state court of murdering Omar Wilson and sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment. After unsuccessfully appealing his sentence, he filed three state-court petitions for post-conviction relief. All were denied. He then filed a petition for a writ of habe-as corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court denied his petition, holding that all but one issue was procedurally barred and denying relief on the single preserved issue. On appeal, Woods challenges the denial of his petition. We affirm.
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