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DENTLY v. LANE

No. 82-2360.

720 F.2d 472 (1983)

Clement DENTLY, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Michael P. LANE and the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gail A. Niemann, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellee.

Michael V. Accettura, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellants.

Before PELL and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges, and JAMESON, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This court, in an opinion filed July 18, 1983, reversed a judgment entered by Gerald B. Cohn, United States Magistrate, which judgment granted the petition of Clement Dently for a writ of habeas corpus, the basis of the granting being the denial of effective assistance of counsel in state proceedings where Dently was convicted of rape. Dently v. Lane, 712 F.2d 1172 (7th Cir.1983) (Cudahy, J., dissenting). Subsequently...

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