MATHENEY v. ANDERSON

No. 03-1739.

377 F.3d 740 (2004)

Alan L. MATHENEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Rondle ANDERSON, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 29, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Freedman (Argued), Carol R. Heise, Midwest Center for Justice, Evanston, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Thomas D. Perkins (Argued), Stephen R. Creason, Office of the Attorney General, Indiana Government Center South, Indianapolis, IN, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before BAUER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


KANNE, Circuit Judge.

In April of 1990, an Indiana state court jury convicted Alan Matheney of murder and burglary. Agreeing with the jury's recommendation, the trial judge sentenced Matheney to death. Matheney exhausted his state-court direct appeals and post-conviction proceedings. Moving to the federal courts on July 11, 1998, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which included a claim that he had been incompetent to stand trial. On July 30, 1999, the...

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