Legal Opinion
Collins v. Israel
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided May 20, 1982No. Civ. A. 81-C-159PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.
The petitioner Leonard Collins was convicted on October 20, 1976, in Milwaukee County Circuit Court of first degree murder in violation of § 940.01, Wis.Stats., and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. His conviction was affirmed by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals on July 26, 1979, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied a petition for review.
The petitioner has filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in this court challenging his conviction on three grounds: (1) that the jury instruction on presumptive intent used at his trial impermissibly…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Sandstrom v. MontanaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Smith v. PhillipsSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Sumner v. MataSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- Claude Francis Roddy, Jr. v. Harold E. Black, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. BangertWisconsin Supreme Court · 1986
- Raymond W. Weber v. Thomas IsraelCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- Burns v. ClusenDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1984
- State v. BangertWisconsin Supreme Court · 1986