WILSON v. LANE

No. 88-2886.

870 F.2d 1250 (1989)

Miriam WILSON, Nadine Schnurstein, Ronald Barrow, Gloria Abbey-Lyles, and Patricia Vader, individually and as next friends acting on behalf of Charles Walker, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Michael LANE, Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 19, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon K. Stromsta, Ross & Hardies, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners-appellants.

Kenneth A. Fedinets, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and WOOD, Jr. and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 19, 1989.

BAUER, Chief Judge.

Charles Walker, a death row inmate at the Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois, wants to get his execution by lethal injection over with. Petitioner-appellants Miriam Wilson, Nadine Schnurstein, Ronald Barrow, Gloria Abbey-Lyles, and Patricia Vader, however, want to fight on his behalf to the finish. The question in this case is whether they have standing to do so.

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