U.S. EX REL. LINK v. LANE

No. 86-1393.

811 F.2d 1166 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Mitchell LINK and Karen Link, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Michael LANE, Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellen R. Domph, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners-appellants.

Jack Donatelli, Office of Ill., Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUDAHY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


BAUER, Chief Judge.

Kenneth Glabe was murdered in a remote rural area in Illinois in 1971. Nine years later, a jury convicted Glabe's ex-wife, Karen Glabe Link and her second husband, Mitchell Link, of the murder. The Links were both sentenced to 35-45 years imprisonment. The instant petition for habeas corpus relief raises the following issues: (1) whether the state court erred in admitting the testimony of Haig's former girlfriend, Pelletiere; (2) whether the state...

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