Legal Opinion
Harold James Leroy Irwin v. Charles L. Wolff, Jr., Warden Nebraska Penal Complex
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 17, 1976No. 74--1934PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.
This case comes to us upon appeal from the denial, in the District Court for the District of Nebraska, 1 of appellant’s petition for writ of habeas corpus. We affirm.
The petitioner was convicted in the District Court of Adams County, Nebraska, of one count of robbery 2 and six counts of rape. 3 He was sentenced to a term of twenty to twenty-five years for the robbery conviction but was not sentenced for the rape convictions. Shortly thereafter, and in compliance with the state Sexual Sociopath Act 4 (hereafter the Act) he was, after hearing, found to be a…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Beck v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Joseph S. George, Jr. And Ricky D. Jackson v. Robert Parratt, Warden, Nebraska Penal ComplexCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
- Hill v. WyrickCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1978
- Steven Arnold v. Donald W. WyrickCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
- Malcolm Thacker v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977
- William Arthur McKinley Jones, Jr. v. J. S. Petrovsky, Warden, F. C. I., Sandstone, MinnesotaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1980
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