Legal Opinion
Sherman Howard v. Richard Gramley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 23, 2000No. 97-1881PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Sherman Howard was convicted in 1989 of sexually abusing his daughter when she was a toddler. After appealing through the Illinois state court system and seeking post-conviction relief in Illinois’s courts, he filed this habeas corpus petition. He contends that his appellate counsel was constitutionally defective in her selection of issues to appeal, and he argues that the district court abused its discretion by refusing to appoint counsel to represent him in these proceedings. The district court rejected Howard’s arguments, concluding that his counsel’s…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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- Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
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