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JACKSON v. ROTH

No. 93-3645.

24 F.3d 1002 (1994)

Ralph Foster JACKSON, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Thomas P. ROTH, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 20, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic R. Klein (argued), Goldberg, Kohn, Bell, Black, Rosenbloom & Moritz, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for petitioner-appellant.

Martha E. Gillis (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Criminal Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for respondent-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, BAUER, Circuit Judge, and TINDER, District Judge.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

In 1981, Ralph Jackson, who was then 29 years old and had no previous criminal record, was convicted in an Illinois state court of having raped a woman whom we shall call W. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum sentence for the offense. At sentencing, another woman, K., testified that Jackson had raped her too. Although that alleged rape had occurred 18 months earlier, Jackson had been indicted for it only recently and had not yet...

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