Legal Opinion
Homer K. Morehead v. State of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 28, 1964No. 19464PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARNES, Circuit Judge:
Appellant’s petition for a writ of ha-beas corpus was denied by the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division. That court had jurisdiction to entertain the petition of the State prisoner, detained at the California Men’s Colony, East Facility, Los Padres, California, by virtue of 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a). Jurisdiction to hear the appeal from the denial of the writ is vested in this court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253.
Appellant has raised a number of substantive reasons why his detention is illegal. He alleges that the grounds of…
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