Legal Opinion
Marsh v. Mazurkiewicz
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 19, 1975No. Civ. A. No. 11-73 ERIEPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEBER, District Judge.
Vernon Carl Marsh is a state prisoner currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment for the first degree murder of Bruno C. Roehrl. Marsh filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and he was granted an evidentiary hearing before this court.
The history of Marsh’s case in the state courts is recited in our prior opinion of March 18, 1974, 372 F.Supp. 783 [W.D.Pa.]. In that opinion we made no findings on the evidence received but found that a remand to the state courts for failure to exhaust state remedies was indicated. We read Commonwealth v. Wayman, 454 Pa.…
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- Gratton Earl Moore v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
- Commonwealth v. WaymanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Marsh v. MazurkiewiczCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1977