Legal Opinion
Ford v. Wainwright
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 4, 1976No. 75-2127PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:
After exhausting all his available state remedies, Louis Ford filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Federal District Court, attacking concurrent sentences of 15 years and 5 years imprisonment imposed after a jury finding of guilty, in the Criminal Court of Record for the crimes of false imprisonment and aggravated assault. The primary ground of attack in Ford’s petition was that he was in effect denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel in his trial. After a hearing on the writ the Federal District Court putting it in terms of whether “petitioner…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Faretta v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Willie James Brown v. Louie L. Wainwright, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- Richard Zuck v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
- Farrell v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Carl Edwin Wiggins v. Raymond K. Procunier, Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- United States v. RussellCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2000
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