Legal Opinion
Donald v. Dumont v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1975No. 74-2903PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:
Donald V. Dumont was convicted by a Texas jury in 1965. The offense: possession of heroin; the punishment: life in the Texas Department of Corrections. The judgment was affirmed on direct appeal, Dumont v. State, Tex.Cr.App. 1965, 398 S.W.2d 129.
Dumont, who has exhausted available state remedies, appeals the district court’s denial of habeas corpus following an evidentiary hearing. On the merits, Dumont levels a due process attack against Texas’ former statutory procedure for selecting grand jury commissioners and grand jurors as that procedure was applied in the…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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- Tollett v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Taylor v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Michel v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
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3Cited by31 opinions
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- John Eldon Smith v. Ralph M. Kemp, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic & Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- Daryl Evans and Bernard Butler v. Ross Maggio, Warden, Louisiana State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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