Legal Opinion
Potts v. Zant
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided January 6, 1983No. Civ. A. C80-1078APublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
MOYE, Chief Judge.
This consolidated action includes two habeas corpus petitions. The first, Civil Ac tion No. C80-1078A, pending in the Atlanta Division of this Court, involves constitutional challenges to petitioner’s conviction of kidnapping and resulting sentence of death, following a multi-county crime spree, in Cobb County, Georgia, Superior Court. The second petition, Civil Action No. C80-50G, pending in the Gainesville Division of this Court, involves constitutional challenges to petitioner’s conviction of murder, and subsequent sentence of death, in the Superior Court of Forsyth…
2Cases cited37 opinions
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- Giglio v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Henry Arthur Drake v. Robert O. FrancisCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Jack Howard Potts, Cross-Appellant v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Henry Arthur Drake v. Ralph Kemp, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Henry Arthur Drake v. Ralph Kemp, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Henry Arthur Drake v. Robert O. FrancisCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
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