LAMBERT v. DAVIS

No. 05-2610.

449 F.3d 774 (2006)

Michael Allen LAMBERT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Cecil DAVIS, Superintendent, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 31, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan M. Freedman (argued), Midwest Center for Justice, Evanston, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Stephen R. Creason (argued), Steve Carter, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, IN, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before RIPPLE, KANNE, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Michael Lambert was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for killing a Muncie, Indiana, police officer in 1990. After a decade of postconviction litigation, and still under a sentence of death, Lambert exhausted his remedies in the Indiana courts and moved to federal court with the filing of a habeas corpus petition in 2001. The district court, Chief Judge Larry J. McKinney of the United States District Court for the Southern District of...

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