UNITED STATES EX REL. WILLIAMS v. DeROBERTIS

No. 82-2497.

715 F.2d 1174 (1983)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John WILLIAMS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Richard DeROBERTIS, et al., Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1983.

Certiorari Denied January 16, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcia L. Friedl, Atty. Gen. of Ill., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellants.

Ann C. Tighe, Cotsirilos & Crowley, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellees.

Before ESCHBACH and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


Certiorari Denied January 16, 1984. See 104 S.Ct. 982.

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

Respondents appeal from the judgment of the district court granting petitioner John Williams a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court entered summary judgment for petitioner, who is in custody pursuant to a bench verdict, on the ground that Williams had not knowingly and intelligently waived his right to a trial by jury secured by the Sixth and Fourteenth...

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