Atkeson v. Cupp

In the present case and two companion cases, 1 63 inmates of the Oregon State Penitentiary filed habeas corpus petitions in Marion County Circuit Court, alleging that certain irregularities in the selection of members and officers of the Multnomah County grand juries that indicted them rendered the indictments defective so that their convictions must be vacated. The trial court appointed the same attorney to represent all petitioners and then, on its own motion, consolidated the petitions into three cases. On the state’s motion, it then dismissed all the petitions on the ground that…