United States Seventh Circuit

The state courts were unreasonable in concluding that defense counsel's failure to find an expert who might have been permitted to testify about defendant's consumption of cocaine and beer on the day of his purportedly false confession did not fall below minimum professional standards to the prejudice of the defendant.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/10/2002
• Decided 04/01/2002
• Published 04/01/2002

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Alan M. Freedman (argued), Carol R. Heise, Midwest Center for Justice, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William L. Browers, Kenneth T. McCurry (argued), Office of Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.