Legal Opinion
Eddie W. Patton v. State of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 14, 1967No. 11005PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:
The question raised by this appeal is whether a defendant may be sentenced to a longer term of imprisonment at his second trial than he received after his first conviction, vacated on constitutional grounds.
Unrepresented by counsel, the petitioner, Eddie W. Patton, was tried in October, 1960 and convicted of armed robbery after a plea of nolo contendere, entered at the close of the State’s evi dence. He was sentenced to prison for a term of twenty years. No appeal was taken, but in April 1964, Patton applied for a state post-conviction hearing, and on the basis of the…
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