Legal Opinion
John Thomas Weaver v. Ward Lane, Warden of the Indiana State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 1967No. 16095_1PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNOCH, Circuit Judge.
The District Court granted the petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus filed by the petitioner-appellee, John Thomas Weaver, and entered an order discharging him and releasing him from custody subject to detention in custody pending review of that decision.
The District Judge conducted a full hearing on the issue of the legality of a search and seizure by the Indiana police prior to the trial in which the petitioner was convicted after jury trial in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Indiana, and sentenced to life imprisonment for rape, on May 19, 1961. That conviction was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Preston v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Cooper v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stoner v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- United States v. Sferas (Two Cases). United States v. SkallyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by18 opinions
- Daniel J. Bowles v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
- State v. BakkerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1978
- State v. ThibodeauSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
- United States v. Joseph Cataldo and James Lucakos, A/K/A James Lucas, T/n James LucakasCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
- United States v. Harry Lee BucklesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1974
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