BARNHILL v. FLANNIGAN

No. 94-1326.

42 F.3d 1074 (1994)

Rodney D. BARNHILL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Mary FLANNIGAN, and Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 14, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack A. Strellis (argued), Strellis, Faulbaum & Field, Waterloo, IL, for petitioner-appellant.

Penelope Moutoussamy George (argued), Office of Atty. Gen., Crim. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for respondents-appellees.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, ESCHBACH, and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner Rodney D. Barnhill ("Barnhill"), an Illinois state prisoner, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition, Barnhill attacked the circumstances of his plea, the effectiveness of his trial and appellate counsel, the constitutionality of the statute used to enhance his sentence, and the application of the statute to this case. The district court rejected each...

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