Legal Opinion
Eric Morris and Riley Sanders, on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. L. B. Sullivan, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 11, 1974No. 73-3110PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Per curiam
Did Morris and Sanders (Petitioners) waive their claims of systematic discrimination in the selection of grand and petit jurors by failing to raise them prior to their filing of the instant consolidated federal habeas corpus case? 1
Sanders was convicted in 1964 of murder in the Bessemer division of Jefferson County, Alabama, but the death sentence he received then has been amended to life imprisonment as a reshit of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972); and he is presently serving this sentence. Morris, convicted in 1968 in the Bessemer division, is serving a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Shotwell Manufacturing Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret v. Robert B. Bennett, Acting Warden, Louisiana State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Donald v. Dumont v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- James Otis Cunningham v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1976
- Hugh H. Tennon, III v. Dr. James Ricketts, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Hoppins v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1983
- Dixon v. HopperDistrict Court, M.D. Georgia · 1976
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