Legal Opinion
Willie George Reese v. Louie L. Wainwright
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 6, 1979No. 78-2345PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:
The appellant, Willie George Reese, a man plagued for many years with recurring symptoms of serious mental illness, appeals from the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Reese was convicted in a Florida state court of robbing a finance company, and sentenced to 101 years’ imprisonment. His habeas petition challenges the sufficiency of the evidence that he was sane during the commission of the robbery, argues that his procedural due process right to a competency hearing at trial was violated, and alleges that he was actually…
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