Legal Opinion

Robert A. Muschette v. United States

Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit

Decided September 25, 1963No. 17410PublishedCited by 36 opinions

Chief Judge Bazelon and Circuit Judge Wright would grant the petition.

1Per curiam

Robert A. Muschette and another were-indicted May 8, 1961, for housebreaking- and petit larceny. In a trial which began June 19, 1961, the jury was unable to-reach a verdict, but a second trial in the following December resulted in conviction. Muschette was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of from two to six years to run concurrently with a four-to-twelve-year sentence imposed in an unrelated case in June, 1961, which he-was serving when he was tried in the-present case.

Muschette appeals, urging that his confession, without which he says he could not have been convicted, was extracted…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Mallory v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. Paul J. Heideman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958

3Cited by36 opinions

  1. David R. Jones v. United States of America, Willie L. Short, Jr. v. United States of America, Arthur L. Jones v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964
  2. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. RundleSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
  3. Eugene R. Frazier v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
  4. James C. Long v. United States of America, Robree C. Earle v. United States of America, William E. Huff v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
  5. Harold W. Greenwell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964

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