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UNITED STATES EX REL. SULLIVAN v. FAIRMAN

No. 83-2054.

731 F.2d 450 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Melvin H. SULLIVAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James A. FAIRMAN, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 9, 1984.

As Amended June 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mardell Nereim, Cotton, Watt, Jones, King & Bowlus, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Kenneth A. Fedinets, Deputy Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before BAUER, WOOD and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Appellant Melvin H. Sullivan, an Illinois state prisoner, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois contending that he had been denied his fourteenth amendment due process rights, and his sixth amendment right to effective assistance of counsel, made applicable to the states through the fourteenth amendment, in his state murder trial. The district judge...

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