Legal Opinion
William Chandler v. Otie Jones and Attorney General of the State of Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 13, 1987No. 86-5194PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONTIE, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner William Herman Chandler appeals from the judgment of the district court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Chandler challenges on several grounds his convictions under Tennessee law of burglary and of being an habitual criminal. Chandler alleges that: (1) Tennessee’s Habitual Criminals Act, Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-1-801 et seq., is unconstitutional on its face because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; (2) the Habitual Criminals Act was unconstitutionally applied to him…
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