Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Townsend v. Twomey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 19, 1971No. 71-1074PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Circuit Judge.
This litigation, now assuming Jarndycian proportions, is once again before this court. The origin of the court procedures occurred on April 7, 1955, in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, when Charles Townsend was found guil*352ty of murdering one Jack Boone, Sr., on December 18, 1953, and was sentenced to death.
The itinerary of the subsequent court proceedings has been elevator-like between the Cook County Court and the United States Supreme Court with intermediate stops at the Illinois Supreme Court, United States District Court and this court.
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2Cases cited26 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Bumper v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Powell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988
- Ronald Johnson v. Warden LumpkinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- James Dean Walker v. A.L. Lockhart, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1984
- Sanders v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1976
- Edward Dennis Jacks, Jr. v. Jack Duckworth, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison, and Indiana Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
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