Legal Opinion
Roper v. Beto
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided September 30, 1970No. Civ. A. No. 5104PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JUSTICE, District Judge.
This federal habeas corpus proceeding collaterally challenges the state criminal conviction of Jimmie Curtis Roper on the ground that his station house identification by the prosecutrix “was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification that he was denied due process of law.” Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293 at 302, 87 S.Ct. 1967 at 1972, 18 L.Ed.2d 1199 (1967).
For the purposes of this action, the following facts are relevant:
On the afternoon of Friday, October 26, 1962, in Tyler, Texas, a young secretary returned to her…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
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3Cited by6 opinions
- United States v. FlickingerCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- Jimmie Curtis Roper v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
- Rawlings v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1986
- United States Ex Rel. Choice v. BrierleyDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1973
- Jimmie Curtis Roper v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1972
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