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STEWART v. PETERS

No. 89 C 8761.

878 F.Supp. 1139 (1995)

Walter STEWART, Petitioner, v. Howard PETERS, III, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center, Respondent.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

March 9, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Carl Thomas, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, for petitioner.

Terence Madsen, William P. Pistorius, Illinois Atty. General's Office, Renee Goldfarb, Cook County State's Atty., Chicago, IL, for respondent.

Terence Madsen, Illinois Atty. General's Office, Chicago, IL, for Neil F. Hartigan.

OPINION AND ORDER

NORGLE, District Judge:

Before the court is the petition of Walter Stewart ("Stewart") for habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the following reasons, the petition is denied.

I. BACKGROUND

The Circuit Court of Cook County sentenced Stewart to death for two murders, an attempted murder, and other violations committed during a February 10, 1980, armed robbery of a jewelry store. He is currently under...

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