U.S. EX REL. DEL VECCHIO v. ILL. DEPT. OF CORR.

No. 90 C 4160.

795 F.Supp. 1406 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. George DEL VECCHIO, Petitioner, v. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent.

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

June 9, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Del Vecchio, pro se.

Margaret L. Paris, Matthew F. Kennelly, Cotsirilos, Stephenson, Tighe & Streicker, James Brian Haddad, Northwestern University School Of Law, Legal Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Terence Madsen, Arleen C. Anderson, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, Ill., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HOLDERMAN, District Judge:

Petitioner George Del Vecchio seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 concerning his conviction and sentence of death resulting from a 1979 trial in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.

FACTS

The following facts are taken from the Illinois Supreme Court's opinions in People v. Del Vecchio, 105 Ill.2d 414, 86...

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