Legal Opinion
Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 30, 1967No. 11102, 11103PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CRAVEN, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by the Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary from a judgment of the district court vacating and setting aside two sentences of imprisonment imposed upon Ganger by circuit courts of Virginia.
The King George County Conviction
Ganger was convicted on September 27, 1963, and sentenced to a term of five years in the penitentiary for the offense of indecent exposure. The district judge was of the opinion that he was so ineffectively represented by counsel as to make a farce of the trial, citing for comparison Root v. Cunningham, 344 F.2d 1 (4th…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Tumey v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Klopfer v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by106 opinions
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- State v. BrittSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1977
- Samuel D. Wright v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1984
- Myers v. FrazierWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1984
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