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U.S. EX REL. SANDERS v. LANE

No. 84-1673.

835 F.2d 1204 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Charles SANDERS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael LANE, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections and Kenneth McGinnis, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

December 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara Czuchra Kamm, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Ellen M. Flaum, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and POSNER, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

BAUER, Chief Judge.

A Cook County circuit court convicted Charles Sanders for the robbery and murder of Killis Dickerson. He was sentenced to thirty years imprisonment for murder and twenty-five years each for armed robbery and home invasion, all sentences to run concurrently. Sanders then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court, contending that the state trial court improperly admitted into evidence an incriminating statement of his...

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