United States Seventh Circuit

Federal collateral review of whether the petitioner defaulted on a judicial bias argument by omitting it from his petition for leave to appeal in the Supreme Court of Illinois is denied where the petition only referred to other documents and did not present any actual argument of judicial bias.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/28/2006
• Decided 04/12/2006
• Published 04/12/2006

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Erik F. Dyhrkopp (argued), Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Colleen M. Griffin (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.