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U.S. EX REL. LEWIS v. LANE

No. 86-2086.

656 F.Supp. 181 (1987)

UNITED STATES ex rel., Cornelius LEWIS, Petitioner, v. Michael P. LANE, as Director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, Respondent.

United States District Court, C.D. Illinois, Danville Division.

January 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornelius Lewis, pro se.

J. Steven Beckett, Reno, O'Byrne & Kepley, P.C., Champaign, Ill., for petitioner.

Mark Rotert, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., Jack Donatelli, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND FINAL ORDER

BAKER, Chief Judge.

This is an application for habeas corpus under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by a prisoner in the custody of the State of Illinois who has been sentenced to death for murder. The case is extraordinary, not only because it involves a death sentence, but also because a majority of the present Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court agree that the Illinois death penalty statute violates the provisions...

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