UNITED STATES EX REL. ORTIZ v. SIELAFF

No. 75 C 301.

404 F.Supp. 268 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Salvador ORTIZ, Petitioner, v. Allyn SIELAFF, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

October 1, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Geraghty, Mark K. Schoenfield, Northwestern Legal Assistance Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Anne Taylor, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.


MEMORANDUM DECISION

MARSHALL, District Judge.

By his habeas corpus petition Salvador Ortiz collaterally attacks his conviction for armed robbery after a bench trial in the Criminal Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Jurisdiction exists under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1970). Petitioner contends that his conviction is constitutionally invalid because identification procedures used by the State were contrary to due process of law and because...

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