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UNITED STATES EX REL. WEGER v. BRIERTON

No. 75 C 3686.

414 F.Supp. 1150 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Chester Otto WEGER, Petitioner, v. David BRIERTON, Warden, Joliet Correctional Center, and Allyn Sielaff, Director of Corrections, Defendants.

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

June 17, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Barton of Barton & Barton, Marseilles, Ill., for petitioner.

Raymond McKoski, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ill., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GRADY, District Judge.

Before the court is respondents' motion to dismiss a petition for habeas corpus brought by a prisoner currently serving a life sentence. Petitioner complains of certain alleged errors in his murder trial in 1961. We will treat respondents' motion, accompanied by evidentiary matter, as one for summary judgment and grant it.

Petitioner's first contention is that several confessions which he made and which were...

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