Legal Opinion
Hazel Newby Creasy v. Evelyn Leake, Superintendent of the Virginia Industrial Farm for Women
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided February 12, 1970No. 13003PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:
Hazel Newby Creasy, appealing from denial of habeas corpus relief for conviction of murder in the first degree, assigns as error that evidence obtained by illegal search and seizure was improperly admitted at her trial. We conclude that the writ should issue subject to the right of the Commonwealth to retry her within a reasonable time.
The facts leading to Mrs. Creasy’s conviction may be briefly stated. After a period of marital troubles, Mrs. Creasy left her husband on March 11, 1965 and moved into an apartment occupied by her two sons. Eighteen days later she went to…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
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- Preston v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Kirkpatrick v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1970
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- Danny L. Sallie v. State of North Carolina, C. T. Caudill, Odom Prison, Jackson, North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1978
- Commonwealth v. StricklandSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
- United States v. Warwick Mason WyattCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1977
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