UNITED STATES EX REL. REED v. LANE

No. 83-2972.

759 F.2d 618 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Fred REED, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Michael LANE and James Greer, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth A. Fedinets, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellants.

Scott Graham, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Before CUMMINGS, Chief Judge, COFFEY, Circuit Judge, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

The State of Illinois appeals the District Court's grant of a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Fred Reed, 571 F.Supp. 530. The petitioner had been serving two concurrent prison terms of fifty to one hundred years for two murders with an additional concurrent term of twenty to thirty years for armed robbery. The constitutional violation found by the...

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