U.S. EX REL. KOSIK v. NAPOLI

No. 85-2451.

814 F.2d 1151 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Joseph KOSIK, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Richard NAPOLI, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 26, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan G. Feibus, Louis B. Garippo, Ltd., Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Timothy Joyce, Cook County State's Atty. Office, Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

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


ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case presents an appeal from a district court's denial on summary judgment of a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The only grounds alleged in support of the request for the writ are that unnecessarily and unduly suggestive pretrial confrontations tainted the two trial identifications of the petitioner, Joseph Kosik, and made those identifications so unreliable that their admission violated Kosik's Fourteenth Amendment...

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