BLENSKI v. LaFOLLETTE

No. 77-1780.

581 F.2d 126 (1978)

Roman R. BLENSKI, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Bronson LaFOLLETTE, in his capacity as Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin and Circuit Court, Milwaukee County, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Bennett Vetzner and Nancy Hopkins (law student) Post-Conviction Defense Project, Madison, Wis., for petitioner-appellant.

Nadim Sahar, Madison, Wis., for respondent-appellee.

Before CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge, and SWYGERT and WOOD, Circuit Judges.


SWYGERT, Circuit Judge.

The principal issues in this appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus are whether the district court judge erred in denying the petitioner's motion for production of trial transcripts, whether the jury instructions were so uninformative and confusing as to be violative of due process, and whether the statute underlying the convictions is unconstitutional.

Roman R. Blenski, petitioner-appellant, was convicted of three counts of...

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