Legal Opinion
Roosevelt Walker v. E. B. Caldwell, Warden, Georgia State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1973No. 71-3253PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Roosevelt Walker, a Georgia state prisoner, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We are required here once again to examine the minimum standard of duty imposed upon appointed counsel in a felony case where the defendant pleads guilty. After careful review of the record, the briefs and the contentions of the parties at oral argument we reverse.
Walker was arrested in Baldwin County, Georgia, on August 23, 1969, and charged in eleven separate indictments with seven counts of burglary (Criminal Code of Georgia, 1969, §…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by64 opinions
- John Lewis Washington v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- People v. PalmerIllinois Supreme Court · 1994
- Oscar Boria v. John Keane, Superintendent, Sing Sing Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1996
- Claude Francis Roddy, Jr. v. Harold E. Black, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
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