Legal Opinion
Reed v. Follette
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 10, 1967No. 67 Civ. 330PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WEINFELD, District Judge.
Petitioner, serving a sentence of from five to twelve years in Green Haven Prison, Stormville, New York, imposed pursuant to a judgment of conviction rendered in 1960 in the Court of General Sessions, New York County, for criminally possessing a pistol,1 seeks a writ of habeas corpus upon the ground that his federal constitutional rights were violated by the introduction in evidence upon his trial of a gun taken from him during an alleged illegal search of his person.
Petitioner’s trial was prior to the Supreme Court’s decision in Mapp v. Ohio,2 but he was…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Linkletter v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Henry v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Ex Parte HawkSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
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3Cited by1 opinion
- United States ex rel. Di Nero v. MancusiDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1969