Legal Opinion
Kurt Stevenson v. James W. Mathews, Warden, Wisconsin Correctional Camp System, Respondent
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 1976No. 75--1426PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Per curiam
The appellant, Kurt Stevenson (Petitioner), is appealing from the denial, without an evidentiary hearing, of his petition for habeas corpus.
In the early hours of March 8, 1970, Detective Donald Schnuck of the Milwaukee Police Department obtained a search warrant for the home and premises of Kurt Stevenson. The warrant was issued on the basis of Schnuck’s testimony that an unidentified, but reliable, 1 informant had purchased narcotics from Stevenson at his home in the early evening hours of March 7. The transaction had been a “controlled buy”; that is, Detective Schnuck had searched the…
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