Legal Opinion · Dissent
Robert R. Cuppett v. Jack R. Duckworth, Superintendent, Indiana State Reformatory
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 8, 1993No. 89-1896Published
1DissentCudahy, Circuit Judge
On September 10, 1962, in the Circuit Court of Monongalia County, West Virginia, Robert Russell Cuppett, nineteen-years old and illiterate, pleaded guilty without the aid of counsel to breaking and entering and felo-niously stealing $16.12 from a laundromat. Nineteen years later, the state of Indiana submitted proof of this conviction to support a finding that Cuppett was an habitual offender under Indiana law. Faced with this uncounseled, pr e-Gideon conviction by which Cuppett’s sentence for a subsequent offense would be enhanced by thirty years, Cuppett’s trial and appellate counsel made…
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- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
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