Legal Opinion
Alfred Eugene Grizzell v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 29, 1982No. 81-5044PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Circuit Judge:
This case turns on whether a state prosecutor’s cross-examination of a defendant as to prior counselless felony convictions, admittedly a due process violation, constituted harmless error. The state courts held it to be harmless error. The federal district court held it was not and granted the petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254. We affirm.
The question as to prior convictions was propounded on cross-examination when the petitioner was testifying to an alibi which, if believed, would have put him in a different city at the time of the crime. Alfred…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Cuyler v. SullivanSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
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3Cited by37 opinions
- James Adams v. Louie L. WainwrightCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- James Cunningham, Jr., Cross-Appellant v. Walter Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1991
- E.K. Wilcox, Jr., Cross-Appellant v. J. Paul Ford, Warden, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- United States v. Carlos SimonCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1992
- Carl Elson Shriner v. Louie L. WainwrightCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
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