MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
KENNELLY, District Judge.
In October 1982, Patrick Hampton was convicted in state court of deviate sexual assault, attempted rape, robbery, and aggravated battery, and he received an "extended-term" sixty year sentence. Because of the unusually long period it took Hampton's case to progress through the state courts on direct and collateral review, he has already served nearly twenty years in prison, including the time...
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