Edwards v. Walker

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER DENYING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

HAUK, District Judge.

The Petitioners are incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution, at Terminal Island, California, following six-year sentences imposed on February 6, 1970, in the Western District of Texas for violations of 21 U.S.C. § 176a (conspiracy to import marijuana). They filed appeals with the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which affirmed the convictions on April 8, 1971, and then petitioned for rehearings which were denied on May 10, 1971. Petitions for certiorari were filed with the Supreme Court of…