Harrison Fagan v. Odie Washington, Warden, and Roland W. Burris, Attorney General of the State of Illinois

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• holding that government “waived [its] waiver” argument by failing to raise it.
• upholding grant of habe-as petition where appellate counsel failed to argue “winning claim” that evidence was insufficient to support conviction
• reversing accountability murder conviction on the basis that the trial court “assumed,” absent any evidence, “that the bullet that killed [the victim] must have come from a gun fired by one of the [members from defendant’s gang]”
• reversing accountability murder conviction on the basis that the trial court “assumed,” absent any evidence, “that the bullet that killed [the victim] must have come from a gun fired by one of the [members from defendant’s gang]”
• “[the defendant] had a winning claim on direct appeal that the [trial] judge had either convicted him of murder on insufficient evidence or misunderstood the law of accountability”

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