Legal Opinion
Alaway v. United States
District Court, C.D. California
Decided February 21, 1968No. 67-1466PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAUK, District Judge.
Petitioner, James Raymond Alaway, a prisoner at the United States Penitentiary at McNeil Island, is here upon motion to vacate his. judgment of conviction for selling marihuana, pursuant to Section 2255 of Title 28, United States Code. 1 He appears in propria persona.
Allowed to proceed in forma pauperis, Alaway seeks to vacate the judgment of conviction upon the following grounds: (1) that the defense of entrapment is available to him; (2) that his arrest was illegal; (3) that the search made inci dent to his arrest was illegal; (4) that the indictment was defective; (5)…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- McDonald v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Alphonzo Edwards v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- Berg v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1949
- Frank Thomas v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1961
- John Hall v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Hollander v. Warden, Nevada State PrisonNevada Supreme Court · 1970
- State v. OliverNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1996
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