WHIPPLE v. DUCKWORTH

No. 91-1087.

957 F.2d 418 (1992)

Dale A. WHIPPLE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Jack R. DUCKWORTH, Warden, Superintendent of Indiana Reformatory, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1992.

Rehearing Denied April 2, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Asher (argued), South Bend, Ind., for Dale A. Whipple.

Thomas D. Quigley (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for Jack A. Duckworth.

Paul Mones, Santa Monica, Ca., for National Clearinghouse for Defense of Battered Women and National Center for Institutions and Alternatives.

Before CUMMINGS and MANION, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

After a childhood of abuse of himself and his sister, Dale Whipple killed his mother and father. The jury found Whipple "guilty but mentally ill" on two counts of murder and the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction. On appeal in this Court, Whipple seeks collateral relief on the basis that the trial court's failure to submit to the jury Whipple's defense theory of self-defense and the defense...

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