WEAVER v. NICHOLSON

No. 16-2400.

892 F.3d 878 (2018)

Wendell WEAVER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Walter NICHOLSON, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

DECIDED June 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew P. LeGrand , Attorney, Collin D. Ray , Attorney, Gibson Dunn, Dallas, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Evan Elsner , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Chicago, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Kanne, Rovner, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


Wendell Weaver was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to forty years' imprisonment. In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, he alleges that his constitutional rights were violated by the trial court's disqualification of his counsel of choice, the ineffective assistance...

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