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UNITED STATES EX REL. BURKE v. STATE OF ILLINOIS

No. 72-1176.

465 F.2d 268 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Charles BURKE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick F. Cohn, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Jayne A. Carr, William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge, PELL, Circuit Judge and DURFEE, Associate Judge.

DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by the District Court. Appellant Burke and one Robert Keeler were, in 1967, members of the Police Department of the City of Chicago. They were charged with two counts of theft and one count of bribery by the Cook County Grand Jury. After a bench trial, both men were found guilty of the charged offenses, and each was sentenced to a prison term of one year and one...

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