Billy Williams v. Carl Hocker, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
A jury in a Nevada state court found Williams guilty of robbery and he was sentenced to life imprisonment as an habitual offender. Williams appealed to the Supreme Court of Nevada, which affirmed the conviction and sentence. Williams v. State, 85 Nev. 169, 451 P.2d 848 (1969), cert. denied 396 U.S. 916, 90 S.Ct. 239, 24 L.Ed.2d 194 (1969). Williams next sought post conviction relief from the United States District Court in Nevada. We affirm that court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas coi’pus.
Williams challenges the trial court’s admission of allegedly…
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