UNITED STATES EX REL. MOORE v. BRIERTON

No. 76-2071.

560 F.2d 288 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Lyman A. MOORE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. David H. BRIERTON, Warden of Stateville Correctional Center, Illinois Department of Corrections, Joliet, Illinois, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Thomas J. Immel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Springfield, Ill., William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before PELL, Circuit Judge, WOOD, Circuit Judge, and GORDON, District Judge.


MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.

The petitioner-appellant Lyman Moore has appealed the district court's ruling dated July 26, 1976, denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In this case, we are called upon to apply the United States Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97, 96 S.Ct. 2392, 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976), which delineates a prosecutor's obligation to provide a defendant with exculpatory materials...

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