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CARTALINO v. WASHINGTON

No. 96-4002.

122 F.3d 8 (1997)

John CARTALINO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Odie WASHINGTON, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 31, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evelyn G. Baniewicz (argued), Office of the Cook County Public Defender, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Rita M. Novak, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, Marie Q. Czech (argued), Office of the State's Attorney of Cook County, Criminal Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and MANION and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

Cartalino was convicted in an Illinois state court of a murder committed in 1979, and was sentenced to life in prison. His codefendant, Bridges, was acquitted. The two had been tried at the same time before the same judge, Michael Close, but Bridges elected a bench trial and Cartalino a jury trial, so that Judge Close merely presided at Cartalino's trial whereas he was the decider of Bridges' case. After exhausting his state remedies, Cartalino...

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