By: Derek Hawkins//February 21, 2022//
7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Case Name: Mark Anderson v. Deanna Brookhart
Case No.: 20-3330
Officials: KANNE, BRENNAN, and KIRSCH, Circuit Judges.
Focus: Habeas Relief – Sufficiency of Evidence
An Illinois jury found Mark Anderson guilty of murdering one man outside a Chicago sandwich shop and shooting at another who had fled. Anderson seeks habeas relief, arguing that the jury lacked sufficient evidence to convict him of shooting towards the man who had fled and that the Illinois Appellate Court unreasonably applied Supreme Court precedent in ruling otherwise. Because the Illinois Appellate Court reasonably applied Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), in upholding Anderson’s conviction, we affirm the denial of habeas relief.
Affirmed
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