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· 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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