Legal Opinion
Lerner v. Gill
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided January 13, 1984No. 81-0289PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRANCIS J. BOYLE, Chief Judge.
This action is a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254, in which the Petitioner seeks a declaration that he is eligible for parole consideration by the State of Rhode Island.
Petitioner was sentenced on September 14, 1970 to two consecutive life sentences and an additional consecutive ten year sentence following conviction on two counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to murder. The offenses occurred on April 20, 1968. They involved the daytime shotgun murder of two victims in a public market, which murders had…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Maurice R. Lerner v. Matthew Gill, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1985
- State v. BarberSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 2001