Legal Opinion
R. D. Pendleton v. Louis S. Nelson, Warden, San Quentin Prison
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 26, 1968No. 22463PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMLEY, Circuit Judge:
R. D. Pendleton, a California state prisoner in custody under two judgments of conviction for violation of state criminal statutes, applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court, without hearing, denied the application sua sponte. Pendleton appeals.
One judgment of conviction, entered on June 29, 1964, was for the state offenses of statutory rape and possession of marijuana, committed about January 1, 1964. The conviction for statutory rape was thereafter reversed, and the conviction for possession of narcotics was affirmed. People v.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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3Cited by19 opinions
- United States v. James John RobertsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
- United States v. Ernest Eugene MahlerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1971
- Brown v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1972
- Sammie L. Nelson v. Robert J. Moore, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, Doreen Moore v. Betty Cole SmithCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1972
- State v. HookHawaii Supreme Court · 1978
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