Legal Opinion
Kenion v. Gill
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided April 22, 1946No. 9189PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETTYMAN, Associate Justice.
Appellant was indicted in December, 1944, for murder. Upon the trial he was represented by experienced counsel of his own choice and employment. He was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment. A motion for a new trial was made and denied. No appeal was taken, and the time within which appeal might have been taken expired. Thereafter, by other counsel, he filed his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The District Court denied the writ, and this appeal was taken from that order.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Waley v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Kinard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- Jones v. HuffCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1941
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3Cited by20 opinions
- State v. ButlerSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1958
- United States v. George LawsonCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1974
- United States v. Morton SobellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1963
- Wallace Leroy Schiers v. The People of the State of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1964
- John Thomas Lott, Johnnie Lee Reed, Larry Pearce, Joe Melvin Shaw and Doris Jeane Miller v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
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