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U.S. EX REL. NEWMAN v. REDNOUR

Case No. 08-cv-4240.

917 F.Supp.2d 765 (2013)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Melvin A. NEWMAN, Petitioner, v. Dave REDNOUR, Warden, Menard Correctional Center, Respondent.

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

Memorandum Granting Stay in Part March 25, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Andrew Drizin, Joshua Alan Tepfer, Laura Hepokoski Nirider, Thomas F. Geraghty, Northwestern University Bluhm Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner.

Erica R. Seyburn, Chicago, IL, for Respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT M. DOW, JR., District Judge.

Following a jury trial, Melvin Newman was found guilty of fatally shooting Andy Dent in July 2001 and sentenced to a 47-year prison term. After launching an unsuccessful direct appeal of the verdict, Newman mounted a similarly unsuccessful collateral attack on his conviction in state court. Using the procedures called for in the Illinois Post-Conviction Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1(a)(1)), he raised...

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