PETERSON v. DOUMA

No. 12-2924.

751 F.3d 524 (2014)

Todd E. PETERSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Timothy DOUMA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 6, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine M. Bowman , Barry Levenstam , Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Katherine D. Lloyd , Office of the Attorney General Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and KANNE and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

Todd Peterson appeals from the denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging his conviction in Wisconsin state court for sexual assault of a child. His petition raised multiple challenges to the conviction, but we granted a certificate of appealability as to only one: whether his trial attorney's failure to move to suppress a statement Peterson made to an off-duty police officer deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to...

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