Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Miscavage v. Howard County District Court
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 16, 1972No. Civ. 732-71PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
COHEN, District Judge:
Petitioner, Stanley C. Miscavage, was sentenced on March 21, 1969 to serve a term of 18 to 25 years imprisonment in the New Jersey State prison upon his conviction of second degree murder in Gloucester County, New Jersey. His petition does not attack that conviction and sentence. It does, however, challenge the legal propriety of the New Jersey authorities’ use of sentences imposed on December 13, 1945 in the Howard County District Court, Big Spring, Texas, in order to classify him here as a fourth offender. 1 He was there sentenced upon his pleas of…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Carnley v. CochranSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Edward Eugene Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973
- People v. JonesMichigan Court of Appeals · 1973
- State v. MiscavageSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1973
- Edward Eugene Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1973