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U.S. EX REL. FLOWERS v. ILLINOIS DEPT. OF CORR.

No. 90 C 6505.

767 F.Supp. 880 (1991)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Marvin FLOWERS, Petitioner, v. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent.

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

May 16, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Professor James B. Haddad, Northwestern University School of Law, Legal Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Richard London, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HART, District Judge.

In October 1980, petitioner Marvin Flowers was found guilty of murder in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Presently pending before this court is Flowers' petition for writ of habeas corpus. Flowers argues that the state trial court improperly refused the jury's verdict of voluntary manslaughter and that the state trial court gave confusing instructions on murder and voluntary manslaughter.

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