Legal Opinion
Early Lee Harris v. Gil Ingram, Warden, Federal Correctional Institute, Butner, North Carolina and J. Marshall Coleman, Attorney General of Virginia
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 20, 1982No. 81-6293PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIDENER, Circuit Judge:
Early Lee Harris was convicted of possession of burglary tools in a Virginia court on May 19, 1978. He was sentenced to a term of 12 months in jail, and was unconditionally released on December 20, 1978. Harris apparently chose to bypass a direct appeal of his Virginia conviction and instead filed a State habeas corpus petition, he says, in June 1978. No disposition of that petition was made before Harris was released from jail, and the habeas petition was dismissed on the alternate grounds of mootness and being without merit.
Harris filed a federal habeas petition in…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- United States v. TuckerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Carafas v. LaValleeSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Jones v. CunninghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Peyton v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Claude Frizzell Bloodgood, III v. David A. Garraghty, Warden Attorney General of DelawareCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1986
- McMannis v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1988
- Troy E. Marks v. John D. Rees and Linley Pearson, Attorney General of IndianaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- Birdsell v. AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Cook v. MalengCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
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