Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Horace Laws v. Howard D. Yeager, Principal Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton, New Jersey
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 30, 1971No. 18162PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
BIGGS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the denial by the United States District Court of Laws’ petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Laws was indicted, along with others, for conspiring to commit armed robbery in violation of N.J.S.A. 2A :98-l and 2A:98-2 and to commit murder in violation of N.J.S.A. 2A:113-1 and 2A:113-2. He was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death pursuant to N.J.S.A. 2A: 113-4. He was also convicted on the conspiracy charge but sentence was suspended. On appeal, the New Jersey Supreme…
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