VILLAVICENCIO-SERNA v. JACKSON

No. 19-2385

999 F.3d 496 (2021)

Luis VILLAVICENCIO-SERNA, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Leonta JACKSON, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 3, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jorge Benjamin Aguinaga , Attorney, Jones Day, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Michael M. Glick , Attorney, Jason Foster Krigel , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Criminal Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Wood, Hamilton, and St. Eve, Circuit Judges.


On March 22, 2009, a jury found Luis Villavicencio-Serna guilty of first-degree murder of Armando Huerta Jr. Scant physical evidence linked him to the charge. The conviction instead was largely based on testimony from three of his friends, all of whom later recanted.

Villavicencio-Serna exhausted his state-court appeals...

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