Legal Opinion
Leon Brent v. Wingate White, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 18, 1968No. 25496_1PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Circuit Judge:
Brent was convicted in February 1964 of aggravated rape and sentenced to death. His conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, and state post conviction, remedies were denied. We stayed his execution pending this appeal from the dismissal, after a hearing of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and the denial of his motion to amend his habeas petition in order to attack his sentence.
Appellant first urges that the District Court erred in rejecting his claim that his confession, received in evidence at trial, was involuntarily made and that its introduction thus violated…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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- Malloy v. HoganSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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