District Court, C.D. Illinois June 21, 2002, 00-2171 (Johnson v. Cowan)

ORDER

McCUSKEY, District Judge.

Petitioner, Arthur L. Johnson, pursuant to the Illinois Habitual Criminal Act, 720 Ill. Comp. Stat. 5/33B-1 (2002), is serving a term of life imprisonment' at the Menard Correctional Center after his third conviction of armed robbery in August 1985. On July 3, 2000 he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.