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RIVERA v. DIRECTOR, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, STATE OF ILL.

No. 90-1439.

915 F.2d 280 (1990)

Angelo RIVERA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, STATE OF ILLINOIS, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 27, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Reddy, Office of the Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner-appellant.

Richard S. London, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent-appellee.

Before POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

After being convicted of murder following a bench trial and sentenced to sixty years in prison, and after exhausting his state remedies, Angelo Rivera brought this action for federal habeas corpus, and having been turned down by the district judge appeals. There is only one issue, whether the refusal to allow into evidence at Rivera's murder trial the confession of his co-defendant (who was tried separately), which exculpated Rivera, denied...

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