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EASLEY v. FREY

No. 04-1614.

433 F.3d 969 (2006)

Ike EASLEY, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Sheldon FREY, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 11, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon A. Hicks (argued), Columbus, OH, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Gary S. Feinerman (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before BAUER, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Robert Taylor, the superintendent at Illinois' Pontiac Correctional Center, was stabbed to death in his office on the morning of September 3, 1987. The murder weapon was a homemade knife—in prison parlance, a "shank." Ike Easley, an inmate at Pontiac, was tried and convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in connection with the crime. Later, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. He is here today appealing...

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