Legal Opinion
Raymond Lockett v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 15, 1978No. 77-1730PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This habeas appeal involves the effect of a state prosecutor’s concealing two witnesses whom the petitioner had subpoenaed. We remand.
Raymond Lockett, convicted in a Louisiana criminal court of sale of heroin and sentenced to life imprisonment, brings this petition for habeas corpus. Lockett alleges that the State violated his sixth and fourteenth amendment rights to compulsory process for obtaining witnesses and to due process of law. The State’s evidence at trial tended to show that Lockett sold heroin to an undercover agent in the presence of two confidential…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Roviaro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- United States v. AugenblickSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- United States v. Laurel Joan MorrisCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by41 opinions
- McKinney v. PateCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1994
- United States v. Angelo Pepe and Thomas Miglionico, United States of America v. Albert Joseph Facchiano, Francis Santo, Paul SantoCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1984
- Michael A. Newell v. Craig HanksCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2002
- State v. LubeskySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1985
- Holman Freeman v. State of GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
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