Joseph Riley, Jr. v. Carl Hocker, as Warden, Nevada State Prison

Joseph Riley, Jr., appeals from a district court order denying Riley’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Riley was convicted by a Nevada state trial court of the crime of larceny, committed on October 28, 1968. At his trial Riley contended that evidence concerning the identification of Riley by an eyewitness to the larceny, at a confrontation shortly after the crime, and at a subse quent police line-up, should be excluded because he was denied constitutional rights announced in United States v. Wade, 388 U.S. 218, 87 S.Ct. 1926, 18 L.Ed.2d 1149 (1967). This contention was accepted by the…