SAYLES v. WELBORN

No. 83-1346.

725 F.2d 436 (1984)

James SAYLES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. George WELBORN, Warden, and Joseph McCombs, Chairman, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Haas and Michael E. Deutsch, Deutsch & Hass, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

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

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, WOOD, Circuit Judge, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


CUMMINGS, Chief Judge.

On December 17, 1982, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board decided, for the fourth time since 1980, to deny parole to petitioner James Sayles, who is incarcerated at Centralia Correctional Center, serving consecutive 100-200 year sentences for two murders committed in 1971 as well as concurrent twenty to forty-year sentences for each armed robbery committed in connection with the murders. Previously Sayles had pled guilty to and served an eighteen...

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