Legal Opinion
Butterfield v. Wilkinson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1954No. 14035_1PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEALY, Circuit Judge.
Appellant is an inmate of the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island. On January 8, 1953, he filed in the court below his petition for the writ of habeas corpus asserting that he had served in full the sentences pursuant to which he had been committed, that the Warden of the penitentiary had misinterpreted the sentences as requiring his continued imprisonment, and that therefore he was entitled to be discharged from custody. In his petition he made no attack upon the validity of the several sentences.
The court was of opinion that appellant’s remedy was not by habeas…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- United States v. DaughertySupreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Mills v. Hunter, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1953
- Bledsoe v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1946
- Brown v. Hunter, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1951
- Bledsoe v. JohnstonDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1944
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Harry Joseph Payne v. Paul J. Madigan, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1960
- Louis Fleish v. E. B. Swope, Warden, U. S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1955
- Winston Churchill Henry v. Paul J. Madigan, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
- Joost v. ApkerDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 2007
- Pitisci v. HardwickDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1955
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