RICHARDSON v. McCANN

Case No. 00 C 6425.

653 F.Supp.2d 831 (2008)

Floyd RICHARDSON, Petitioner, v. Terry McCANN, Warden, Stateville Correctional Center, Respondent.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

December 4, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua Sachs, Office of the State Appellate Defender, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Jay Paul Hoffmann, Chief of Criminal Appeals, Eric W. Truett, Karl R. Triebel, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Peter Fischer, Sally Louise Dilgart, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.


MATTHEW F. KENNELLY, District Judge.

In May 1982, Floyd Richardson was charged with the April 1, 1980 armed robbery and murder of George Vrabel, a sales clerk at Twin Food and Liquors on the south side of Chicago. A jury convicted Richardson, and the trial judge sentenced him to death in 1984, after Richardson waived his right to a jury at the penalty phase of his trial. On January 11, 2003, Illinois' governor commuted...

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