Legal Opinion
James E. Fields v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 7, 1967No. 10776_1PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:
The question for decision is whether in the circumstances of this case the appellant may successfully assert that he was not afforded effective assistance of counsel. The feature of the case to which our attention has been primarily directed is that the total lapse of time between appointment of counsel and the passing of sentence upon the defendant was no more than fifteen to thirty minutes.
An allegation that the appellant, James E. Fields, had been denied effective assistance of counsel in his criminal trial was first made in his petition for a writ of habeas corpus…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Claude O. Jones, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Norman F. Twiford v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by77 opinions
- Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. MaroneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
- Gratton Earl Moore v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
- Victor Dennis Marzullo v. State of MarylandCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1977
- United States v. George Crutcher, Hampton C. Hazel, Also Known as Robert Jones, and John PayneCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Peter SalazarCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
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