Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Willie Combs v. Hon. Wilfred L. Denno, as Warden of Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 15, 1966No. 29382_1PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLING, District Judge.
Combs was charged on July 8, 1960, with homicide, indicted for murder in the first degree on October 20, 1960, convicted on his plea of guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and sentenced on April 11, 1961, as a second felony offender, to a term of seven and a half to fifteen years at Sing Sing prison. Contending that he had been denied the aid of counsel, particularly at the time he was arraigned, Combs first exhausted his state remedy (People v. Combs, 2d Dept. 1963, 19 A.D.2d 639, 241 N.Y.S.2d 104), and then petitioned the United States District Court for the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Hamilton v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- White v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- William D. Blue v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- William Vitoratos v. E. L. Maxwell, Warden, Ohio PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by10 opinions
- United States Ex Rel. Geralds v. DeeganDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1968
- United States Ex Rel. Hardy v. McMannDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1968
- Albert Harris, Jr. v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Florida Division of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- United States of America Ex Rel. Isaiah Rambert v. The State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
- People ex rel. Combs v. La ValleeAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1968
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