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UNITED STATES EX REL. MITCHELL v. FAIRMAN

No. 83-3031.

750 F.2d 806 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Francis A. MITCHELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James W. FAIRMAN, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 12, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James I. Kaplan, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Marcia L. Friedl, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner-appellant, Francis Mitchell, was found guilty of murder by an Illinois state court in 1979 and was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. After exhausting his state remedies, see People v. Mitchell, 95 Ill.App.3d 779, 51 Ill.Dec. 1, 420 N.E.2d 415 (1981), he brought this action for habeas corpus in federal court, and he appeals from the district...

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