RUSSELL v. LANE

No. 88-1598.

890 F.2d 947 (1989)

Nathaniel RUSSELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael LANE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathanial Russell, Danville, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Michael J. Singer, Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before CUDAHY, POSNER, and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Nathaniel Russell appeals from the denial of a petition for habeas corpus that challenged the constitutionality of his state-court conviction on six grounds. On the same day the petition was filed, Judge Mills, to whom the case had been assigned in the usual random manner, dismissed four of the grounds because, in his view, they raised evidentiary issues not of constitutional dignity; he ordered the state to answer the other two. Some months...

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