Legal Opinion
Purkhiser v. Wainwright
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided June 24, 1971No. Civ. No. 71-696PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
EATON, District Judge.
James Dale Purkhiser has filed a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus seeking release from Florida State Prison where he is presently serving a 42 year and 2 month sentence imposed on July 3, 1968 in the Circuit Court of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida for second degree murder. [Petitioner was originally convicted of first degree murder but this conviction was reversed by the Florida Supreme Court and remanded for sentencing for second degree murder. Purkhiser v. Florida, 210 So.2d 448 (Fla.1968).]
Petitioner has…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Martis C. Scalf v. John E. Bennett, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary, Fort Madison, IowaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- Erwin M. Enzor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
- Fred Guadalupe Trujillo v. Harry C. Tinsley, Warden of the Colorado State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1964
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Henry Clay Burks v. Charles Egeler, Warden, People of the State of MichiganCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
- Johnson v. WyrickDistrict Court, W.D. Missouri · 1974
- James Dale Purkhiser v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Henry Clay Burks v. Charles Egeler, Warden, People of the State of MichiganCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975