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HICKS v. DUCKWORTH

No. 88-2683.

856 F.2d 934 (1988)

In the Matter of William HICKS, Petitioner, v. Jack R. DUCKWORTH and Attorney General of Indiana, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Hicks, Indiana State Prison, Michigan City, Ind., pro se.

Margaret L. Paris, Cotsirilos, Crowley, Stephenson, Tighe & Streicker, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Kermit R. Hilles, Office of the Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for respondents.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and POSNER and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

William Hicks, a prisoner in an Indiana state prison, applied to a federal district court in Indiana for habeas corpus, contending that he was being imprisoned in consequence of an unconstitutional conviction that he had received in Nevada — a conviction the Indiana state courts had used to convict him as a habitual offender. Upon motion by the Attorney General of Indiana, the district court ordered the case transferred to a federal district...

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