Legal Opinion
Melvin Turner v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 19, 1999No. 96-5742PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYAN, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner’s request for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 requires that we answer three questions:
• whether the Supreme Court’s decision in Old Chief v. United States, 519 U.S. 172, 117 S.Ct. 644, 136 L.Ed.2d 574 (1997), is retroactively applicable to Melvin Turner’s case;
• whether the district court erred in denying Turner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claim without holding an evi-dentiary hearing; and
• whether the district court erred in refusing to provide Turner with an evi-dentiary hearing regarding the constitutionality of his prior…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Old Chief v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Custis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Jan M. Sexton Salmi v. Secretary of Health and Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1985
- Terry D. Paprocki v. Dale FoltzCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
- Rockie Lane Hilliard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1998
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3Cited by89 opinions
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