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U.S. EX REL. LOPEZ v. CHRANS

No. 88 C 2448.

696 F.Supp. 1210 (1988)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Victor LOPEZ, Petitioner, v. James CHRANS, Respondent.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

September 23, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Lopez, Pontiac, Ill, for petitioner.

Michael J. Singer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Criminal Appeals Div., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Petitioner Victor Lopez, an inmate at Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center, seeks habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 from his murder conviction and twenty-eight year prison sentence. For the reasons set forth below, the petition is denied.

Procedural History

On September 18, 1984, a jury in the Circuit Court of Cook County convicted Lopez of murder under the Illinois accountability...

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