Thomas v. Greer

Warden Jim Greer of Menard Correctional Center appeals from an order of the circuit court of Peoria County granting a petition by Melvin Thomas for habeas corpus relief and ordering that Thomas be released from custody.

Thomas was originally sentenced to a term of two to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections in 1977 by the circuit court of Knox County following his conviction for burglary and theft. In 1978, while incarcerated in the Peoria Correctional Center (Center) under the Knox County sentence, Thomas and another inmate, Roderick Choisser, kidnapped a female employee at the…