Legal Opinion
Archie Nathaniel Biggers v. William S. Neil, Warden, Tennessee State Penitentiary, Nashville, Tennessee
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 18, 1971No. 20540PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.
In this case we are asked by the State of Tennessee to review and reverse the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus sought by petitioner Biggers in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. After a full hearing and after review of the full record of the proceedings in the state courts of Tennessee wherein Biggers had been convicted of rape and sentenced to 20 years in Tennessee’s State Vocational Training School, the District Judge found that identification procedures employed by Nashville police and subsequently made the subject of extensive…
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