Legal Opinion
Gary Van Pilon v. Amos Reed
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1986No. 84-4408PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Gary Van Pilon, a Washington prisoner, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment denying his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He sought relief from a 1980 state court conviction of two counts of first degree robbery, accompanied by a special finding that he was armed with a deadly weapon. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
On June 15, 1979, the Seattle police arrested Pilón for the robbery of a pharmacy that took place six days earlier. The next day the police conducted a lineup in which Pilón and five other inmates of the local jail…
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