Legal Opinion
Bastida v. Braniff
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided December 30, 1970No. Misc. No. 1758PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CASSIBRY, District Judge:
On a previous petition for habeas corpus relief, this Court concluded that Leonard N. Bastida had been denied his constitutional right to effectively confront and cross-examine a witness against him in the state trial which resulted in his conviction for simple burglary. The State was accordingly order*275ed to vacate Bastida’s judgment of conviction, reinstate his plea of not guilty and schedule a retrial within sixty days, failing which this Court would discharge him from custody. Bastida v. Henderson, Misc. No. 1549 (E.D.La. May 5, 1970). The State chose to retry…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Leonard N. Bastida v. Hon. Matthew S. Braniff, Judge, Div. 'B', Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971