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Rawlins v. State of Kansas

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided April 30, 2013No. 12-3138PublishedCited by 25 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to examine ancient legal writs in a very modern context. It arises from the 2001 conviction of Damans Rawlins in Kansas state court for battery of a police officer. The Kansas court sentenced Rawlins to three years’ probation.

Even while not facing jail time, Rawlins timely challenged her conviction in the Kansas courts both through direct appeals and through Kansas’s collateral review system, arguing that certain constitutional errors tainted her conviction. Those state-court proceedings lasted for an unusually long period of time, finally…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. Maleng v. CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  3. United States v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  4. United States v. HaymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
  5. United States v. DenedoSupreme Court of the United States · 2009

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3Cited by25 opinions

  1. State of West Virginia v. Orville M. HuttonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 2015
  2. Stoller v. United States of AmericaDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 2016
  3. United States v. MilesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2019
  4. In re Apple, Inc.District Court, E.D. New York · 2016
  5. United States v. MilesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2017

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