Legal Opinion
In Re Chessman
District Court, N.D. California
Decided January 4, 1955No. 34375PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODMAN, District Judge.
Six and a half years have passed since the death penalty was adjudged against Chessman by the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. 1 Many appeals and petitions for the writ of habeas corpus 2 have now culminated in the instant petition for the writ of habeas corpus. The latter was no doubt prompted by the “invitation” of the U. S. Supreme Court, Chessman v. People of State of California, 348 U.S. 864, 75 S.Ct. 85, in denying Chessman’s latest petition for certiorari, that the denial was “without prejudice to an application for…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- McKane v. DurstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- People v. ChessmanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1951
- Dowdell v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Dorsey v. GillCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
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3Cited by11 opinions
- People v. ChessmanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1959
- Caryl Chessman v. Harley O. Teets, Warden, California State Prison, San Quentin, CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1956
- Chessman v. TeetsSupreme Court of the United States · 1955
- In RE WHITE v. RhayWashington Supreme Court · 1965
- Chessman v. TeetsDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1956
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