EDDMONDS v. PETERS

No. 95-2142.

93 F.3d 1307 (1996)

Durlyn EDDMONDS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Howard PETERS, III, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Cunningham (argued), Anne E. Carlson, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Rita M. Novak, Terence Madsen, Office of Atty. Gen., Chicago, IL, Michael A. Hurst, Office of Atty. Gen., Crim. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, Marie Quinlivan Czech (argued), Office of State's Atty. of Cook County, Crim. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before FLAUM, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


MANION, Circuit Judge.

Durlyn Eddmonds was found guilty of the deviate sexual assault and murder of a nine-year-old boy and sentenced to death. After his conviction and sentence were upheld on appeal and in state post-conviction proceedings, Eddmonds petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus alleging he was denied the effective assistance of counsel and due process at trial and sentencing and that the Illinois...

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