Legal Opinion
Lowery v. State of Maryland
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided October 14, 1975No. Civ. Y-74-890PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOSEPH H. YOUNG, District Judge.
The petitioner, David Sidney Lowery, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Baltimore City Criminal Court jury in October, 1970, and received the mandatory life sentence. Having exhausted his state remedies, Lowery filed a petition for habeas corpus relief in the federal courts, alleging that the prosecution at his murder trial knowingly used perjured testimony to obtain his conviction. He supports that allegation with a sworn affidavit from the State’s chief witness at his trial, John L. Dixon, in which Dixon states that he…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
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