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GRIGSBY v. COTTON

No. 04-3356.

456 F.3d 727 (2006)

Anthony GRIGSBY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Zettie COTTON, Superintendent, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 1, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gregory Deis (argued), Tiloma Jayasinghe, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Steve Carter, Andrew K. Kobe (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before COFFEY, EASTERBROOK, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

MANION, Circuit Judge.

In 1988 an Indiana state court enhanced Anthony Grigsby's sentence for attempted armed robbery to 50 years' imprisonment because the court found he was a habitual offender. He had pleaded guilty to armed robbery in 1978 and had been convicted of burglary in 1986. Grigsby filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in April 2004, alleging, as relevant to this appeal, that his 1978 guilty plea was unconstitutional because...

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