Legal Opinion

Dow v. State

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided April 6, 1971PublishedCited by 40 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DUFRESNE, Chief Justice.

Petitioner, Raymond E. Dow, instituted in the Superior Court under 14 M.R.S.A. § 5502 a petition for the writ of habeas corpus seeking his release from Maine State Prison. The petition as amended and the writ were denied by a single Justice from whose decision petitioner has appealed to this Court. We find no error.

Represented by counsel of his own choice, petitioner was convicted on his plea of guilty to an indictment charging him with the crime of breaking, entering and larceny in the nighttime, and on February 9, 1967 was sentenced to a term in Maine State Prison of…

2Cases cited63 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Mempa v. RhaySupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. State v. SiscoSupreme Court of Iowa · 1969
  5. Hudson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1926

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3Cited by40 opinions

  1. State v. DavenportSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1974
  2. State v. ParkerSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1977
  3. Application of FeingoldSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972
  4. State v. BlanchardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1979
  5. Morgan v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1972

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