Legal Opinion
Albert Cooper v. State of North Carolina, Samuel P. Garrison, Warden, Central Prison
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 10, 1983No. 82-6293PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, Circuit Judge:
Albert Cooper challenges the constitutionality of his incarceration by the state of North Carolina after his felony conviction in state court. The district court denied his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and this court granted a certificate of probable cause. We now affirm.
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On December 2, 1971, Cooper was discovered by a policeman in a bowling alley in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was behaving in a peculiar manner and was taken to a local hospital, where he told a nurse that he had “destroyed” his wife and children and made irrational statements to the nurse and to…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Patterson v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Cupp v. NaughtenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Washington v. MurrayCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1991
- Kenneth E. Murphy v. Manfred Holland, Warden, Wv PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1985
- Keith Austin Smith v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, Warden of West Virginia PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1983
- Noland v. FrenchCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1998
- Samuel Fulton, No. 127-943 v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, Ronald Fitzgerald Robinson, 125759 v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1984
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