Legal Opinion
Louis Cuen Taylor, Arizona State Prison Inmate No. 31176 v. Harold Cardwell, and the Attorney General of the State of Arizona
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 18, 1978No. 77-2432PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
Taylor was convicted in state court of twenty-eight counts of murder resulting from an arson-caused hotel fire in Tucson, Arizona, in December 1970. After the Arizona Supreme Court affirmed his conviction, State v. Taylor, 112 Ariz. 68, 537 P.2d 938 (1975), he filed this petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
The district court denied the petition without an evidentiary hearing. We vacate that judgment and remand for an eviden-tiary hearing on the voluntariness of certain statements Taylor made during an early morning stationhouse interrogation.
Taylor was present in the…
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Robert Harold FENDLER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert GOLDSMITH, and the Attorney General of the State of Arizona, Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- Cardwell v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Robert Mata v. George W. Sumner, Warden of the California State Prison at San QuentinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
- Daniel Ray Patterson v. Warden, San Luis ObispoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- Richard Briggs, Jr. v. Robert R. RainesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
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