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U.S. EX REL. BILYEW v. FRANZEN

No. 87-1081.

842 F.2d 189 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. John William BILYEW, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Gayle FRANZEN, et al., Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee T. Lawless, Asst. Federal Public Defender, St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner-appellant.

Arleen C. Anderson, Office of Illinois Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

Before POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges, and NOLAND, Senior District Judge.

NOLAND, Senior District Judge.

The present appeal is the most recent chapter in the 13 year pilgrimage of John William Bilyew challenging the validity of his guilty plea in an Illinois state court to the offenses of murder and concealing a homicidal death. Such plea was entered on March 3, 1975 and the petitioner sentenced to consecutive terms of 50 to 100 and 1 to 3 years' imprisonment. His conviction was ordered set aside by the Illinois Appellate Court, People...

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