United States Seventh Circuit

A stay order of a district court grant of a petition for habeas corpus is kept in place for supplemental briefing where the Supreme Court's decision in US v. Gonzalez-Lopez, 126 S. Ct. 2557 (2006), that an erroneous failure to allow a defendant's chosen lawyer to represent him at trial violates the Constitution without regard to consequences does not apply retroactively to the current petition.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/29/2007
• Decided 07/05/2007
• Published 07/05/2007

Judges

• EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and WOOD and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jennifer A. Bonjean, Attorney, Bonjean Law Group, New York, NY, for Petitioner-Appellee., Jonathan J. Silbermann, Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellant.