Legal Opinion
Wade v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1970No. 55PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
In 1961, petitioner and one Pollard appealed to the California District Court of Appeal from murder convictions upon which the California Superior Court had sentenced each of them to life imprisonment. California Rules of Court 35 (c) and 10 (c) required that the appellants be furnished with one free copy of the trial transcript to be shared by them for the purposes of the appeal. Pollard received the free copy but would not share it with petitioner. However, the State Attorney General loaned petitioner’s appellate counsel his copy. The District Court of Appeal affirmed the convictions, 194…
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