James Wells v. Jeff Coker

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• applying Illinois law in concluding that § 1983 plaintiff was not precluded from alleging facts contrary to stipulations in factual basis for guilty plea because stipulations were “not controlling or necessary to the disposition”
• collateral estoppel did not apply where two alternative factual bases could have supported guilty plea
• alternative grounds for guilty plea rendered each ground unnecessary to the judgment

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