UNITED STATES EX REL. PHILLIPS v. LANE

No. 83 C 6817.

580 F.Supp. 839 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. George PHILLIPS, Petitioner, v. Michael LANE, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, and Steven Hardy, Warden, Menard Psychiatric Center, Respondents.

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

February 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce Mosbacher, Asst. State Appellate Defender, Steven Clark, State Appellate Defender, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Sally L. Dilgart, Asst. Atty. Gen., Neil Hartigan, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

PRENTICE H. MARSHALL, District Judge.

George L. Phillips has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976). In 1978, he was found guilty of murder by a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois and was sentenced to a term of 100 to 200 years in the penitentiary.1 Phillips was convicted of the May 1972 murder of a Chicago...

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