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U.S. EX REL. YATES v. HARDIMAN

No. 84 C 10295.

656 F.Supp. 1006 (1987)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Lonnie YATES, Petitioner, v. Phillip T. HARDIMAN, Executive Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections, Richard Elrod, Sheriff of Cook County, and Michael Lane, Director, Department of Corrections, State of Illinois, Respondents.

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

March 20, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Doherty, Public Defender of Cook County, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner; Marc Fogelberg, Robert P. Isaacson, Asst. Public Defenders, of counsel.

Scott Graham, Asst. Atty. Gen., Neil F. Hartigan, Atty. Gen. of State of Ill., Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM

GEORGE N. LEIGHTON, Senior District Judge.

On the morning of July 11, 1977, in the City of Chicago, the apartment in which seventeen-year-old Veronica Lee lived, was burglarized. Lee, apparently unbeknownst to the burglar, was in the apartment; when discovered, she was stabbed to death. Petitioner, Lonnie Yates, an American Negro, was indicted for the murder and burglary. Following a February 1979 trial, a jury returned guilty verdicts on both...

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