Legal Opinion
Birdsell v. Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 21, 1987No. 86-7664PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Per curiam
Dale E. Birdsell, a federal inmate presently incarcerated in Oklahoma on convictions of conspiracy and transporting fraudulent securities, filed petitions1 for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. His petitions challenged the legality of two 1960 Alabama convictions on the grounds that (1) they *921were obtained in violation of his right to counsel, and (2) he was not mentally competent to stand trial at the time. The district court dismissed Birdsell’s petitions for lack of jurisdiction. We affirm.
Petitioner was…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Carafas v. LaValleeSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Jones v. CunninghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. HaymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Peyton v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by12 opinions
- James Alfonso Greene v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
- Fred B. Stacey, Jr. v. Warden, Apalachee Correctional InstitutionCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Robert Blaik v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Blaik v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1997
- Dale E. Birdsell v. The State of Alabama and Attorney General of the State of Alabama, Dale E. Birdsell v. The State of Alabama and Attorney General of the State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
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