Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Thomas v. Maroney
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 7, 1969No. 17337PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying a petition for habeas corpus. No evidentiary hearing was held. The lower court issued a certificate of probable cause for an appeal. In the petition, appellant, a state prisoner, alleged that his conviction had been obtained by perjured testi*993mony.1 In this appeal he claims that the district court committed error by its summary dismissal of his petition because the record on which the order was based was not a “full and uncontested record of the state proceedings.”2
As we are not certain whether the district court…
3Cases cited7 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- White v. SwensonDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1966
- Jimmie Baines v. H. R. Swenson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
- Nathaniel Wade v. Howard Yeager, Warden, New Jersey State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1967
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4Cited by16 opinions
- United States of America Ex Rel. Donald Howard Montgomery v. Joseph R. Brierley, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969
- In the Matter of John Parker, on Habeas Corpus. State of South Dakota and Don R. Erickson, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1970
- Ralph Jerome Selz v. The State of California, Richard A. McGee Director, Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
- Merle Ray Winford v. Harold R. SwensonCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1975
- Hill v. WyrickCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1978
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