Legal Opinion
Ronzzo v. Sigler
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided October 2, 1964No. Civ. A. 703LPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN PELT, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on a petition for habeas corpus filed in this court by Virgil M. Ronzzo. Counsel has been appointed for petitioner and a hearing was held on September 3, 1964. The matter now stands ready for decision.
Petitioner, an indigent illiterate, is presently serving a term of life imprisonment in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex on a charge of second degree murder. Ronzzo’s present claim grows out of alleged procedural infirmities in his conviction on a plea of guilty.
On October 18, 1959 Ronzzo was arrested on charges of first degree…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Hamilton v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- White v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Percy Detoro v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden of the Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1964
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Gasque v. StateSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1967
- Lawrence E. Wilson, Warden, San Quentin Prison v. Fred R. HarrisCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1965
- Merle W. Burnside v. State of NebraskaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
- Dale Leroy Konvalin v. Maurice H. Sigler, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1970
- State v. SheldonNebraska Supreme Court · 1965
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