Legal Opinion
James Dale Cooper v. Jerry Campbell, Superintendent, Arkansas Department of Correction, Cummins Unit, and Attorney General, State of Arkansas
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 25, 1979No. 78-1534PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
James Dale Cooper, petitioner in this habeas corpus proceeding, is serving a sentence of life imprisonment as the result of a jury verdict in the state Circuit Court , of Sebastian County, Arkansas, finding him guilty of first degree murder. Cooper’s judgment of conviction entered in November 1974 was affirmed on appeal by the Arkansas Supreme Court, as was the subsequent denial of his petition for state post-conviction relief.
Cooper sought a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.1 On April 4, 1978, the district…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Crist v. BretzSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- United States v. Kenneth O. BrownCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by43 opinions
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- Michael Lenza v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden Attorney General of the State of MissouriCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1980
- Allan Frank Davis v. Jerry Campbell, Acting WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1979
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