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UNITED STATES EX REL. MASSARELLA v. ELROD

No. 81-1571.

682 F.2d 688 (1982)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Benedetto J. MASSARELLA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard J. ELROD, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois and Tyrone Fahner, Attorney General of Illinois, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1982.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius Lucius Echeles, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

E. James Gildea, Schwartz & Freeman, Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, and PECK and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied September 23, 1982.

PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

Massarella appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He raises numerous issues on appeal, but only one is of moment. That issue is whether Massarella's conviction of the felony of perjury in Illinois' courts violated the ex post facto clause of the Federal Constitution. U.S.Const. art. I, §...

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