Legal Opinion
John Ashburn v. Jeff Korte
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 1, 2014No. 12-3365PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
John Ashburn was convicted in Illinois state court of the first degree murder of Rick Muckenstrum. After appealing his conviction and filing a collateral challenge in Illinois state court, Ashburn filed a ha-beas corpus petition in federal district court. The district court denied Ashburn’s petition for habeas relief but certified six issues for appeal. Ashburn now appeals, presenting four of those issues: whether Ashburn’s constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel was violated because his state appellate counsel did not raise a speedy trial claim; whether…
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