Legal Opinion
Cortez Jones v. Victor Calloway
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 15, 2016No. 15-1174PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
After a bench trial in Cook County Circuit Court, Cortez Jones was convicted of murder for the 1999 shooting death of Friday Gardner. In his federal habeas petition, see 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Jones alleged that his trial counsel was constitutionally ineffective in violation of the rule of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 104 S.Ct. 2052, 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984). The factual basis for this claim was his attorney’s failure to present the testimony of Michael Stone, a codefendant who was tried separately. Stone confessed to the crime and has consistently maintained that…
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