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STEWART v. PETERS

No. 89 C 8761.

770 F.Supp. 416 (1991)

Walter STEWART, Plaintiff, v. Howard PETERS, III, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center, Defendant.

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

July 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Carl Thomas, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Terence Madsen, [COR LD NTC] Illinois Atty. General's Office, William P. Pistorius, Renee Goldfarb, Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.

ORDER

NORGLE, District Judge.

Before the court is the petition of Walter Stewart ("Stewart") for a writ of habeas corpus. For the following reasons, the petition is granted.

FACTS

Stewart is currently under a death sentence for two murders, an attempted murder, and other offenses committed during a February 10, 1980 armed robbery of the Empire Jewelry Store in Berwyn, Illinois.1 On July 31, 1980, Stewart pleaded...

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