Legal Opinion
Atchley v. Wilson
District Court, N.D. California
Decided January 19, 1968No. 46688PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*69MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS
PECKHAM, District Judge.
Veron Atchley brings this habeas corpus petition pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 et seq., to secure his release from an allegedly unconstitutional confinement in San Quentin State Prison. After having pleaded not guilty, he was convicted of first degree murder on January 7, 1959, and was sentenced to death. The California Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence, People v. Atchley, 53 Cal.2d 160, 346 P. 2d 764 (1959). A writ of certiorari was granted but subsequently dismissed by the United States Supreme Court…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Johnson v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Linkletter v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Culombe v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Spano v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
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3Cited by8 opinions
- People v. DisbrowCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
- Procunier v. AtchleySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- People v. HoganCalifornia Supreme Court · 1982
- State v. CooperSupreme Court of Iowa · 1974
- Lawrence E. Wilson, Warden v. Veron AtchleyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
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