Legal Opinion
Gordon v. Breazeale
District Court, N.D. Mississippi
Decided September 15, 1965No. GC645PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLAYTON, District Judge.
Petitioner, George A. Gordon, seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c) (3), asserting that he is in custody by virtue of a judgment of a state court in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Gordon was convicted and sentenced to death for the crime of rape and now contends that he was deprived of due process of law and the equal protection of the laws in the criminal proceedings against him in the courts of the State of Mississippi. The state court record was supplemented here by an evidentiary hearing, and opposing counsel submitted…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- Strauder v. West VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Patton v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Willie Lee Henderson v. Lewis S. Tollett, Warden, Brushy Mountain State FarmCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1972
- Woodruff v. BreazealeDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1967
- Fondren v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1967
- Ellzey v. BreazealeDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 1967
- Winters v. CookDistrict Court, N.D. Mississippi · 1971
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