Legal Opinion
Sanders v. Housewright
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided March 8, 1985No. CV-R-83-171-ECRPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDWARD C. REED, Jr., District Judge.
Ellis Sanders, Jr., petitions this Court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. In support of his petition, Sanders alleges that the trial court erred in (1) denying his motion in limine to suppress the nature of his prior convictions and also in (2) refusing to sustain his objection to the prosecutor’s closing remarks, to admonish the jury and to grant his motion for a mistrial.
Sanders was tried by jury and convicted in state court on March 21, 1979, of robbery, use of a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime and possession of…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Sanders v. HousewrightCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1986