Legal Opinion
State v. Kerns
Nebraska Supreme Court
Decided November 1, 1978No. 42011PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Spencer, C. J., Pro Tem.
Defendant, Sandy Patrick Kerns, after a jury trial, was convicted of sexual assault in the first degree and found to be an habitual criminal. Defendant argues four assignments of error: (1) The overruling of his plea in bar; (2) the overruling of his motion to suppress; (3) the admission into evidence of the State’s exhibit 3; and (4) the excessiveness of his sentence. We affirm.
Defendant struck his 19-year-old cellmate, and then sexually assaulted him in the first degree while they were confined in the medium security unit of the Nebraska Penal and Correctional…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Katz v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Lanza v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Alonzo Bonner v. Joseph CoughlinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Harold DawsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Patchette v. StateSupreme Court of Iowa · 1985
- State v. LynchNebraska Supreme Court · 1995
- State v. GreenNebraska Supreme Court · 1991
- Dailey v. Nebraska Department of Correctional ServicesNebraska Court of Appeals · 1998
- State v. RobinsonNebraska Supreme Court · 1979
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