UNITED STATES EX REL. CANITY v. LANE

No. 83 C 641.

569 F.Supp. 808 (1983)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Walter CANITY, Petitioner, v. Michael LANE, Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections; John Heckel, Warden, Vandalia Correctional Center, and Neil Hartigan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Respondents.

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

August 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Walter, Walter & Smoker, Waukegan, Ill., for petitioner.

Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen. by Maureen Cain, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM ORDER

BUA, District Judge.

This case is before the Court on a petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Now pending is the respondents' Motion for Summary Judgment. For the reasons stated herein, summary judgment is granted for the respondents.

On April 11, 1980, Petitioner Walter Canity was tried by a jury in the Circuit Court of Lake County, Illinois and found guilty of the offenses of deviate sexual assault, Ill....

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