Legal Opinion
Imbler v. Craven
District Court, C.D. California
Decided April 23, 1969No. Civ. 68-1543-FPublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERGUSON, District Judge.
Petitioner, a California state prisoner, seeks a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging the validity of a judgment of conviction in two counts entered in the Superior Court in Los Angeles on August 10, 1961. The first count charged murder in the first degree, for which the jury fixed the penalty at death; in addition, petitioner was sentenced to a term of imprisonment not to exceed ten years on count two, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. The judgment was affirmed by the California Supreme Court on automatic appeal…
2Cases cited60 opinions
- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Napue v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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3Cited by39 opinions
- Imbler v. PachtmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. Hsieh Hui Mei Chen and Tsang-Chi ChenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- State v. WrightWashington Supreme Court · 1976
- People v. BrownIllinois Supreme Court · 1995
- United States of America Ex Rel. Clinton Burnett v. People of the State of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1980
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