Legal Opinion
Richard Lee Morgan v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary of the Dept. Of Offender Rehabilitation and Jim Smith, Attorney General of the State of Florida
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 17, 1982No. 80-5453PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
R. LANIER ANDERSON, III, Circuit Judge:
The appellant, Richard Lee Morgan, a prisoner in the Florida State Penitentiary System, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. On the report and recommendation of a magistrate, the district court summarily dismissed Morgan’s petition. Morgan appeals to this court raising the sole question presented in his petition for habeas corpus: Whether the due process clause or equal protection clause requires a state to impanel a jury to determine a disputed question of identity in a…
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