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UNITED STATES EX REL. YOUNG v. LANE

No. 84-2783.

768 F.2d 834 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Terry YOUNG, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael LANE, Director, Department of Corrections, and Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 18, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alison Edwards, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Marcia L. Friedl, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

Before FLAUM and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Terry Young participated in a gun duel in which two of his friends killed each other. Young and Edward Clerk were together when Clerk's mother announced that Michael Jackson, gun in hand, had come "looking" for Clerk. Young and Clerk then went "looking" for Jackson and found him. Clerk hit Jackson with a gun, and as Jackson reeled back Clerk fired. Jackson fired in return; Clerk fell, dead on the spot with a bullet in his head; Jackson...

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