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U.S. EX REL. GOOCH v. McVICAR

No. 96 C 783.

953 F.Supp. 1001 (1997)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Robert GOOCH, Petitioner, v. Richard D. McVICAR, Respondent.

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

January 27, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Gooch, Menard, IL, pro se.

Arleen C. Anderson, Darryl Belmonte Simko, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, for Richard McVicar, Attorney General of the State of Ill.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, Senior District Judge.

Robert Gooch, a prisoner at Shawnee Correctional Center in Vienna, Illinois, brings a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In his petition Gooch argues that (1) the state trial court's failure to admit evidence that his cousin, Ryan Gooch, confessed to committing the murder in question violated his due process right to a fair trial; (2) his trial attorney's failure...

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