Legal Opinion
Michael Timm Rinehart v. Lou v. Brewer, Warden of the Iowa State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1977No. 76-2090PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.
The state of Iowa, on behalf of Warden Brewer, has appealed from a grant of habe-as corpus. The district court 1 granted Michael Timm Rinehart’s motion for summary judgment pursuant to his petition for writ of habeas corpus filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court’s opinion is reported at 421 F.Supp. 508 (S.D.Iowa 1976).
The writ was granted upon three due process grounds: (1) Rinehart’s plea of guilty to a murder charge was not, when viewed in the totality of circumstances, entered voluntarily and understandingly; (2) Rinehart received ineffective assistance…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by82 opinions
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- Curtis Dale Morrow v. Robert F. Parratt, Jr., Warden, Nebraska Penal and Correctional ComplexCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1978
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