Legal Opinion
Ward v. Knoblock
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 28, 1984No. Nos. 82-1743, 83-5152PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
In these two appeals we are presented with different but related problems, each requiring us to interpret the phrase “in custody” as it is used in the context of the writ of habeas corpus and the writ of error coram nobis, respectively. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241(c)(3) & 2254(a) (1982) (habeas corpus); 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1982) (coram no-bis).1 In the first case, a prisoner presently in federal custody seeks to attack an earlier state sentence which was fully served. In the second, a prisoner presently in state custody seeks to attack his federal sentence which he has not yet…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Preiser v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Carafas v. LaValleeSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Jones v. CunninghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Peyton v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Heflin v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Ward v. WolfenbargerDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2004
- Charles D. Scanio v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994
- Pamela D. Green, Cross-Appellant v. Dorothy J. Arn, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988
- Pamela A. McVeigh v. Earl SmithCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
- Usama Hamama v. Rebecca AdducciCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2020
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