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U.S. EX REL. FREE v. PETERS

No. 89 C 3765.

778 F.Supp. 431 (1991)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. James P. FREE, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Howard PETERS, III, Michael P. Lane, and Neil F. Hartigan, Defendants.

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

November 5, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimbal Richard Anderson, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Arleen C. Anderson, Illinois Atty. General's Office, Jack Donatelli, U.S. Attorney's Office, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

The petitioner, James P. Free, Jr., is confined in the Pontiac Correctional Center's condemned unit and has filed this petition for habeas relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, seeking relief from both his conviction and death sentence. For the reasons that follow, we deny Free's petition for relief from his conviction and grant him relief from his death sentence.

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