Legal Opinion
Gagne v. Meacham
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided November 10, 1976No. Civ. A. 75-4777-FPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FREEDMAN, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the petition of Richard Joseph Gagne for a writ of habeas corpus. Gagne is presently serving a life sentence at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk, as the result of his conviction in the Massachusetts Superior Court sitting in Hampden County on February 20, 1973, for the crime of murder in the second degree. Gagne alleges in his petition that he has been imprisoned pursuant to an illegal sentence in that he was denied due process of law as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. More specifically, he asserts three…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Mullaney v. WilburSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Evans v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1975
- Commonwealth v. RodriguezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Kowalski v. GagneCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1990
- Commonwealth v. McInerneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- DeJoinville v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Gagne v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1978
- Gagne v. MeachumDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1978
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