Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit November 25, 2002, No. 02-1753 (Tate v. Pierson)

ORDER

In 1994 Timothy Tate was convicted after a jury trial in Illinois state court of first-degree murder and sentenced to 39 years’ imprisonment. His conviction and sentence were upheld on direct appeal, and two post-conviction motions he filed were denied by the Illinois courts. In 2001 Tate filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.