Legal Opinion
Alex Reizenstein v. Maurice Sigler
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 30, 1970No. 19847PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
In a habeas corpus proceeding filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska, Alex Reizenstein sought relief from incarceration in the Nebraska state penitentiary under a Nebraska state court sentence of life imprisonment (later commuted to forty-five years) following his conviction for first degree murder entered in 1957. The federal district court (Judge Robert Van Pelt) denied petitioner any relief, and Reizenstein prosecutes this appeal. For reasons stated in this opinion, we reverse and remand.
Reizenstein contends that his statements…
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