Rodgers v. Turner

CHRISTENSON, District Judge.

The above-named petitioner with the assistance of Court-appointed counsel has now been afforded fair and full opportunity to present by second amended petition such reasons as may exist for the issuance by this Court of a writ of ha-beas corpus to prevent his execution by state authority.

The American system of justice as implemented by the Fourteenth Amendment will not send a convicted person to his death without according him such opportunity of alleging before a federal court and, if legally sufficient allegations be made, of proving at a proper hearing that his…