Cases

281 F.Supp.2d 941 (2003) Lawrence DALTON, Petitioner, v. WARDEN, OSHKOSH CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, and Lisa Madigan, Attorney General of Illinois, Respondents. No. 97 C 2368. United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division. September 5, 2003. *942 *943 Lawrence Dalton, Green Bay

JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judge, joined by WILSON, MARTIN, JORDAN, and ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judges, dissenting: The question before the en banc Court today is whether a federal habeas court should look through a state appellate court’s summary decision denying a petitioner relief to the reasoning in a lower state court decision when deciding whether the state appellate court’s decision is ent

Smith, District Judge. *400In the middle of the night on May 2, 2016, the plaintiff heard a knock at her door. Answering the door in her pajamas, she found several City of Allentown police officers seeking information about her son's whereabouts and requesting permission to search her home without a warrant. The plaintiff flatly refused and att

DECISION AND ORDER MYRON L. GORDON, Senior District Judge. On August 13, 1982, petitioner James Willison was convicted in the state circuit court of being party to the crimes of first-degree murder and armed robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder conviction and to a consecutive term of twenty years in prison for the armed robbery conviction. On February 15, 1983, the state trial judge

910 F.2d 1379 Robert PRIHODA, Petitioner-Appellant,v.Gary R. McCAUGHTRY, Warden, Waupun Correctional Institution,Respondent-Appellee. No. 89-3479. United States Court of Appeals,Seventh Circuit. Argued May 14, 1990.Decided Aug. 14, 1990. Mark J. Rogers, Angermeier & Rogers, Milwaukee, Wis., for pet

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge. Chambers v. Mississippi, 410 U.S. 284, 298-303, 93 S.Ct. 1038, 1047-50, 35 L.Ed.2d 297 (1973), holds that states may not use the hearsay rule to deprive defendants in criminal cases of reliable and important evidence — in Chambers, multiple confessions of another person to the murder for which Chambers was on trial. M

State of New York OPINION Court of Appeals This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the New York Reports. No. 47 The People &c. ex rel. Danny Rivera, Appellant, v. Superintendent, Woodbourne Correctional Facility, et al., Respondents. Kerry Elgarten, for appellant. Frank Brady, fo

A Louisiana jury convicted Ricky Langley of second-degree murder. The state court overturned that conviction on direct appeal. So the State retried Langley and re-convicted him. Langley now seeks federal habeas relief. He argues his prior conviction should be construed as an implicit acquittal that bars the re-conviction and allows him to walk free. We disagree. I.

645 F.3d 484 (2011) Raymond D. LEAVITT, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES, INC.; Todd Tritch, individually and in his official capacity as Medical Doctor; Edie Woodward, individually and in her official capacity as Physician Assistant; Teresa Kesteloot, individually and in her official capacity as Health Services Administrator of Maine State Prison; Charlene Watkins, individually and in her official capacity as Family Practit

NUMBER 13-19-00468-CV COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG TIMOTHY DEAN STONE, TDCJ #1177762, Appellant, v. WARDEN FURR, ET AL., Appellees. On appeal

(2007) Charles WILSON, Plaintiff, v. Ken GREETAN, Individual Capacity; and Jeffrey Stellings, Individual Capacity,[1] Defendants. No. 06-C-585-C. United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin. August 17, 2007. OPINION AND ORDER BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge. This case arises out of a conduct report that plaintiff Charles Wilson,

348 F.Supp.2d 1031 (2004) Michael Lee WILSON, Petitioner, v. Steve WATTERS, Respondent. No. 04-C-776-C. United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin. December 10, 2004. *1032 Michael L. Wilson, pro se. Charles D. Hoornstra, Assistant Attorney General, Madison, WI, for Defendant. ORDER CRABB, Distric

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff-appellant Stephen Jarriett, an inmate at the Trumbull Correctional Institution (TCI), was placed in a “strip cage” in the TCI segregation unit for twelve hours. Jarriett brought a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various prison guards and officials in their individual and official capacities, alleging that the defendants violated his Eighth Amendment rights by acting with del

949 F.Supp. 714 (1996) Rick L. WILSON, Plaintiff, v. Charles HARPER and Ronald Welder, Defendants. Civil No. 4-94-70620. United States District Court, S.D. Iowa, Central Division. November 14, 1996. *715 Philip B. Mears, Mears Law Office, Iowa City, IA, for plaintiff. Kristin W. Ensign, Attorney General of Iowa, Des Moines

OPINION JONES, Judge. The appellant, Mira E. Wilson, appeals as of right from a judgment of the trial court dismissing her habeas corpus suit. The trial court found that the petition filed by the appellant failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted because the petition did not allege that her sentence was void or that the term of her imprisonment had expired. Several is

380 F.3d 932 Willie WILLIAMS, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant,v.Margaret BAGLEY, Warden, Respondent-Appellee. No. 02-3461. United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Argued January 29, 2004. Decided and Filed August 13, 2004. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern Distr

746 P.2d 1022 (1987) 113 Idaho 563 Mike WILSON, Petitioner, and William Wolfe and John Merrifield, Petitioners-Appellants, v. STATE of Idaho, Al Murphy, Director of the Idaho State Department of Corrections, Arvon Arave, Warden, Idaho State Correctional Institution, Larry Wright, Deputy Warden-Security, Idaho State Correctional Institution, and their agents and employees, Defendants-Respondents. N

WIGGINS, Circuit Judge, dissenting. I dissent because I believe that the Sentencing Guidelines withstand all constitutional challenges. I also believe that if the Guidelines are found unconstitutional, the “good time” credit provisions are severable from the infirm sections of the Sentencing Reform Act.1 This is a case about power: the power and authority the

126 F.3d 589 7 A.D. Cases 454, 24 A.D.D. 51, 10NDLR P 380 Granville AMOS; Harvey W. Bloxom; Michael A. Holt; TeddyT. Jones; Charles Madison; Howard Megginson; BorisPrymeran; Gary Ralph; John Smith; Michael Hilman Smith;William Lewis Smith; Calvin J. Whiting; Dennis BrianAbsher, Plaintiffs-Appellants,andWinfried Lee Rhodes, Plaintiff,v.MARYLAND DEPT. OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND COR

LAY, Circuit Judge. Appellant appeals from the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On April 21, 1964, appellant pleaded guilty in the presence of his counsel to second degree murder of his wife, Melba Louise Roach, in Jasper County, Iowa. He was sentenced to the Iowa Penitentiary for sixty years impr