Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Maggio
District Court, M.D. Louisiana
Decided May 4, 1983No. Civ. A. No. 82-527-APublished
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.
Petitioner, Johnny Lee Coleman, brings this pro se petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He attacks his conviction in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, of the crime of attempted aggravated rape. Petitioner claims that he lacked the mental capacity to knowingly and voluntarily waive his Miranda rights and that the state violated his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by admitting into evidence a tape-recorded confession which he gave to officers of the Baton Rouge Police…
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- LaVallee v. Delle RoseSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Charles Branch v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, RespondentCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980
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