· 12/7/1995
Alvoil Cawley v. George E. Detella and Jim Ryan, Attorney General of the State of Illinois
Citations
- 71 F.3d 691
- 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 34450
- 1995 WL 722934
How courts have described this case
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- holding that petitioner’s motion for leave to file late petition for leave to appeal to Supreme Court of Illinois, which the court denied, was insufficient to preserve claims
- noting that failure to \file a petition for leave to appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court\ usually results in procedural default, but a federal court may still review the claim if the \Illinois courts on post-conviction did not invoke waiver or res judicata\
- depression not an external impediment
- depression not an external impediment
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Judges: Posner, Coffey, Flaum
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