Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Benton
District Court, N.D. California
Decided November 26, 1945No. 25293-GPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODMAN, District Judge.
The petitioner alleges that he is unlawfully detained by the United States Army authorities and held, after conviction at a general Army Court Martial of the crime of murder in violation of the 92nd Article of War, 10 U.S.C.A. § 1564, to serve a sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the Military Court. He alleges in his petition that “the counsel assigned to defend (him) before the Court Martial that tried him were so unqualified, incompetent, inefficient, negligent and unfaithful in the performance of their duties as such defense counsel that (he) did not in any…
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3Cited by7 opinions
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