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UNITED STATES EX REL. KIRK v. PETRELLI

No. 71 C 1329.

331 F.Supp. 792 (1971)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Clarence KIRK, Petitioner, v. John J. PETRELLI, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, and Theodore Fields, Chairman, State of Illinois Pardon and Parole Board, Respondents.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 30, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Borun, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen. of Ill., Warren K. Smoot, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WILL, District Judge.

Petitioner is seeking habeas corpus relief under Section 2254 of Title 28 of the United States Code. He is presently on parole from the Illinois State Penitentiary at Pontiac, Illinois, where he had been serving a fifteen-to-thirty year sentence imposed on December 13, 1962, by the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, after he was found guilty by a jury of the offense of murder. The conviction was affirmed by the...

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