Legal Opinion
Jones v. Cunningham
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 14, 1963No. 77PublishedCited by 1,466 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
A United States District Court has jurisdiction under 28 U. S. C. § 2241 to grant a writ of habeas corpus “to a prisoner ... in custody in violation of the Constitution ... of the United States.” The question in this case is whether a state prisoner who has been placed on parole is “in custody” within the meaning of this section so that a Federal District Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine his charge that his state sentence was imposed in violation of the United States Constitution.
In 1953 petitioner was convicted in a Virginia state court of an offense requiring confinement in the…
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