Legal Opinion
Jones v. Huff
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 26, 1945No. 8932PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETTYMAN, Associate Justice.
The court below denied a petition for habeas corpus without a hearing. Petitioner alleged that he was confined to the penal institution at Lorton, Virginia, after judgment of conviction and sentence by the District Court on October 18, 1943, upon a charge of forgery. Among other allegations, he says that his attorney, who was not his present attorney, 1 was incompetent in his defense and that thereby his rights under the “Fourth Amendment of the Constitution” and under the “Civil Rights Statute — Title 18, Sec. 52” were violated. Specifically, he says that after…
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3Cited by69 opinions
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