UNITED STATES EX REL. CHURCH v. DE ROBERTIS

No. 84-2138.

771 F.2d 1015 (1985)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Michael Kerry CHURCH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Richard De ROBERTIS, Warden & Attorney General of Illinois, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary L. Mikva, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Terence M. Madsen, Office of Ill. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents-appellees.

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


DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.

Appellant Michael Church, convicted of murder and armed violence after a trial in which a written statement which he prepared (under circumstances hereinafter described) constituted significant evidence against him, seeks release on habeas corpus. He maintains that his waiver of rights under Miranda1 is defective because the detectives did not tell him that a lawyer, who had been appointed for him...

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