Legal Opinion
Williams v. Wolff
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided June 24, 1980No. CIV-R-79-252-ECRPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM DECISION
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
The petitioner, a prisoner of the State of Nevada, has petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254.
He was convicted by a jury in 1968 of a robbery that occurred in Reno, Nevada, on September 6, 1967, and sentenced to life imprisonment as an habitual criminal. The Nevada Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence in Williams v. State, 85 Nev. 169, 451 P.2d 848 (1969), cert. den. 396 U.S. 916, 90 S.Ct. 239, 24 L.Ed.2d 194 (1969).
Petitioner Williams then sought a writ of habeas corpus in this United States…
2Cases cited47 opinions
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- Burks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ThomasSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1990
- Fitzgerald v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984
- Williams v. WolffCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982