U.S. EX REL. RIGGINS v. McGINNIS

No. 91 C 1351.

859 F.Supp. 309 (1994)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Jimmy Lee RIGGINS, Petitioner, v. Kenneth R. McGINNIS and Roland Burris, the Attorney General of the State of Illinois, Respondents.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

July 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry B. Kurz, Hall & Kurz, Richard A. Halprin, Kent R. Carlson, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff.

Margaret Mary O'Connell, DuPage County States Attorney's Office, Wheaton, IL, for Kenneth R. McGinnis.

Michael A. Hurst, Kathryn Marie Frost, Illinois Atty. General's Office, Chicago, IL, for Roland Burris.


OPINION AND ORDER

NORGLE, District Judge:

Before the court is the petition of Jimmy Lee Riggins ("Riggins") for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the following reasons, the petition is denied.

FACTS1

On June 30, 1986, Riggins went to Jackson Park Hospital for a kidney dialysis treatment. After the treatment, he went directly to his house. Riggins felt weak and woozy...

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