Legal Opinion
Johnny Lee Long v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 27, 1986No. 85-1012PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
A prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment by a Texas state court as a multiple offender seeks to attack the validity of one of the earlier convictions on which his sentence was based and the voluntariness of his plea at the later trial that the earlier conviction was “true.” We hold that the prisoner’s plea of “true” to the charge that he had been duly and legally convicted, if voluntarily and knowingly entered, forecloses his attack on the prior conviction. We also deny petitioner’s request for a remand to hold an evidentiary hearing on the validity of the…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Singleton v. WulffSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Tollett v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Marsden v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1988
- Milton Eugene Cupit v. John P. Whitley, Warden, Louisiana State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Freeman v. County of BexarCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
- Bobby Lee Beasley v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
- United States v. Kenneth R. CouchCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1990
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