Legal Opinion

Mario C. Moorhead v. United States

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided March 16, 1972No. 71-1651PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge

This is an appeal from the denial by the District Court of the Virgin Islands of two separate motions pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (1971) for relief from federal custody. The appellant, Mario C. Moorhead, is in custody at the Federal Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, serving a sentence for armed robbery of a grocery store in the District of Columbia. This sentence was imposed by the District Court of the Virgin Islands when Moorhead, a native of St. Croix, having been arrested in the Virgin Islands on a fugitive warrant, waived trial in the…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  2. McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. MacHibroda v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Blackledge v. AllisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  2. United States v. Peter A. Crusco and Phillip A. Cimmino. Appeal of Phillip CimminoCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1976
  3. Melvin Meffery Wade v. Arthur Calderon, Warden of San Quentin Attorney General of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
  4. Richard O.J. Mayberry v. George Petsock, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1987
  5. Lesko v. LehmanCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1991

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