Legal Opinion
Gene Andrew Austad v. Henry Risley and Thomas Sellers, and Attorney General Mike Greely, Additional And
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 23, 1985No. 83-3933PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POOLE, Circuit Judge.
Gene Austad was convicted by a jury in a Montana state court of deliberate homicide, robbery, sexual intercourse without consent and aggravated burglary. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on the conviction of deliberate homicide, and to consecutive forty year terms on each of the other three charges. After exhausting his state remedies, Austad filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the district court claiming that he had been denied a fair trial because the great volume of pretrial publicity created an environment of hostility which made it impossible to obtain…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Dusky v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Sumner v. MataSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by28 opinions
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