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U.S. EX REL. SAVORY v. LANE

No. 85-2467.

832 F.2d 1011 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Johnnie L. SAVORY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael LANE, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 30, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore A. Gottfried, State Appellate Defender, Springfield, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

David E. Bindi, Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before WOOD and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Petitioner was convicted of two counts of murder in state court, after a retrial following reversal of his original convictions necessitated by the introduction of an improperly obtained confession. In his direct appeal, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the admission at his trial of an inconsistent exculpatory story violated Miranda and that the admission of evidence of and prosecutor's comments on the defendant's refusal...

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