Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Privitera v. Kross
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 10, 1965PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
The petitioner, now imprisoned under a state court judgment of conviction for illegal possession of policy slips, seeks his release upon a Federal writ of ha-beas corpus. He contends that the state-imposed sentence violated his Federal rights to the equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment, and against excessive fines under the Eighth Amendment.
Upon his conviction in the New York City Criminal Court in January 1963, petitioner was sentenced to imprisonment for thirty days and fined $500, or sixty days’ additional imprisonment in the event of…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Douglas v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Townsend v. BurkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
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3Cited by14 opinions
- State v. LavelleSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1969
- Kelly v. SchoonfieldDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1968
- Morris v. SchoonfieldDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1969
- Sawyer v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1968
- Arthur v. SchoonfieldDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1970
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