Legal Opinion
Billy Wayne Sinclair v. State of Louisiana
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 2, 1982No. 82-3077PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Per curiam
In this federal habeas petition, Louisiana prison inmate Billy Wayne Sinclair asserts that his guilty plea to a robbery charge was not voluntarily and knowingly made in that no one informed him that a pending murder conviction might be imposed consecutively. The District Court dismissed the petition, finding it successive and an abuse of the writ under 28 U.S.C. § 2244 and Rule 9(b) governing actions under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Sinclair has indeed raised these points in virtually identical wording on two previous occasions. As Justice O’Connor recently observed, society has “justified interests…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- United States v. FradySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- James D. Booker v. State of ArkansasCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
- Collin L. Johnson v. Roger B. Copinger, Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1969
- Paul J. Madigan, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz, California v. Selvie W. WellsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1955
- James Luther Johnson v. Raymond D. Massey, Superintendent of Union Correctional InstitutionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by43 opinions
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- Robert Lonberger, Jr. v. R.C. MarshallCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1987
- Ray Jackie Miller v. Donald Bordenkircher, Warden, West Virginia State Penitentiary and Attorney General of West VirginiaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1985
- Steven Finkelstein v. Eliot Spitzer, Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2006
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