U.S. EX REL. VALENTINO v. GODINEZ

No. 92 C 2408.

833 F.Supp. 733 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Jeffrey VALENTINO, Petitioner, v. Salvador A. GODINEZ and Roland W. Burris, Respondents.

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

October 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Valentino, pro se.

Thomas Lee Ciecko, Ill. Atty. Gen. Office, Chicago, IL, for respondents.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ALESIA, District Judge.

Pro se petitioner, Jeffrey Valentino, brings this habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on two grounds: (1) that the pattern jury instructions used at his trial deprived him of due process, and (2) that the public defender who represented him in the appeal of his state post-conviction petition rendered unconstitutionally ineffective assistance. The court referred the petition...

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