Legal Opinion
Pelley v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 1954No. 11054PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAIM, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment dismissing, without a hearing, a motion filed by William Dudley Pelley under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, to vacate, set aside and correct a sentence imposed upon Pelley upon his conviction, on August 16, 1942, of violating the Federal Sedition Law, the amended version of which statute is 18 U.S.C.A. § 2388.
The plaintiff here appealed his conviction and the judgment was affirmed by this court, United States v. Pelley, 7 Cir., 132 F.2d 170, a petition for cer-tiorari was denied by the Supreme Court, 318 U.S. 764, 63 S.Ct. 665, 87 L.Ed. 1135, and…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Ewing v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- United States Ex Rel. Feeley v. RagenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1948
- Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1949
- United States v. SturmCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1950
- United States v. JonikasCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1952
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3Cited by31 opinions
- Roosevelt Mitchell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1958
- Amos Black v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959
- James P. Taylor v. United States of America, James Peter Taylor v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1960
- State v. CernySupreme Court of Missouri · 1956
- Alex Popeko, Fred Del Genio and Thomas Edward Harty v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1961
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