Legal Opinion
Wilkins v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 30, 1979No. 78-5885PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Per curiam
The pro se petitioner was convicted in a Federal District Court on criminal charges, 422 F. Supp. 1371 (ED Pa. 1977), and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed the convictions on June 9, 1977, by judgment order. 559 F. 2d 1210. This petition, filed on December 14, 1978, is therefore 17 months out of time as a conventional petition for certiorari under this Court’s Rule 22 (2).
But this is not a conventional petition for certiorari. The petitioner states that he asked his court-appointed lawyer to file a timely petition for certiorari and that in September 1977 he received an…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Schreiner v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Doherty v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- United States v. WilkinsDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1976
3Cited by33 opinions
- United States v. BucklesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2011
- Wilson v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1982
- United States v. Shanta A. Howell and George T. Howell, IIICourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1994
- Pena v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
- Nnebe v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2008
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