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U.S. EX REL. LUCAS v. WELBORN

No. 97 C 3158.

89 F.Supp.2d 976 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Losardo LUCAS, Petitioner, v. George WELBORN, Warden, Respondent.

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

October 5, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin Earl Starks, Starks & Boyd, P.C., Chicago, IL, Thomas M. Peters, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Losardo Lucas, Tamms, IL, pro se.

Lisa Anne Hoffman, William Lloyd Browers, Illinois Attorney General's Office, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, Chief Judge.

On June 3, 1986, habeas petitioner Losardo Lucas was convicted of murder by a jury in the Circuit Court of Cook County and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Lucas appealed his conviction and sentence to the Illinois Appellate Court, claiming that he was not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, that the trial court erred in limiting his cross-examination of a crucial State witness, and that his...

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