United States Seventh Circuit

Inculpatory statements made by an 11-year-old boy, inexperienced with the police, were involuntary. The statements, which were the only evidence tying him to the murder, should have been suppressed; counsel's failure to challenge their admissibility compels a conclusion of ineffective assistance.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/02/2004
• Published 03/02/2004

Judges

• TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Steven A. Drizin (submitted a brief), Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellee., Linda Woloshin (submitted a brief), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, Lisa A. Hoffman, Office of the State's Attorney of Dupage County, Wheaton, IL, for Respondent-Appellant.