United States Seventh Circuit

State appelate court preserved petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim by implicitly reaching the merits of issues that petitioner raised when affirming the circuit court's judgment in his post-conviction petition

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/1999
• Decided 11/01/2000
• Published 11/01/2000

Judges

• ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge., Before WOOD, Jr., RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric Gibson (argued), Oak Park, IL, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Browers, Jay Hoffman (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for respondent-appellee.