Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit September 21, 1983, 81-1534 (Ben Sanders, Jr. v. Thomas R. Israel and Attorney General of Wisconsin)

ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner, Ben Sanders, Jr., was convicted in 1973 for the murder of two Milwaukee police officers and was given two consecutive life sentences. He appealed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which affirmed both the convictions and the sentences. 69 Wis.2d 242, 230 N.W.2d 845 (1975). Sanders then commenced habeas corpus proceedings in federal court under 28 U.S.C.