Legal Opinion
Acord v. Hedrick
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided March 11, 1986No. 16963PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEELY, Justice:
On 13 January 1983 a Raleigh County jury found Rodger Acord guilty of first-degree sexual assault and subsequently the trial court sentenced him to ten to twenty years in the West Virginia Penitentiary. Mr. Acord has petitioned this Court for a writ of habeas corpus in which he alleges several errors of constitutional dimensions in the proceedings below. We find no error warranting an award of a writ.
The heart of Mr. Acord’s petition is his claim that the trial court wrongly permitted a privately retained lawyer to aid the State in its prosecution against him. Mr. Acord…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- State v. ThomasWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1974
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3Cited by16 opinions
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