United States Seventh Circuit

Defense counsel's failure to 1) discuss an insanity defense, 2) investigate and obtain reports on defendant's childhood, and 3) have defendant examined by a mental health expert, did not amount to ineffective assistance.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/27/2002
• Decided 07/23/2002
• Published 07/23/2002

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, BAUER and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Prentice H. Marshall, Jr.,Scott L. Warner (argued), Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James E. Fitzgerald (argued), Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for respondent-appellee.