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UNITED STATES EX REL. HAYWOOD v. WOLFF

No. 79 C 1471.

490 F.Supp. 1154 (1980)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Melvin HAYWOOD, Petitioner, v. Dennis WOLFF, Warden, Joliet Correctional Center, Respondent.

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

April 11, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Adam, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Neal B. Goodfriend, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM

LEIGHTON, District Judge.

The issue in this habeas corpus proceeding is whether petitioner's state court convictions were obtained under circumstances that deprived him of rights secured by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal constitution. Review of the trial record compels this court to conclude that petitioner's trial and convictions deprived him of fundamental constitutional rights. Therefore, his petition is granted; but the...

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