Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Freeman v. Harrington
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided March 12, 2014No. 00 C 0831PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Chief Judge Ruben Castillo, United States District Court
Illinois prisoner Geoffrey W. Freeman (“Petitioner”) is serving a natural life sentence for first degree murder and armed robbery. On January 29, 2013, he filed an amended pro se petition for a writ of habe-as corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (“Petition”). Presently before the Court is Respondent’s motion to dismiss the Petition for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction because it is an unauthorized second or successive petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b). For the reasons set forth below, the Court…
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