Legal Opinion
Copley v. Sweet
District Court, W.D. Michigan
Decided July 13, 1955No. Civ. A. 2630PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STARR, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff Marvin Copley, an inmate of the State prison of southern Michigan serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, filed complaint in forma pauperis in this court against the defendants, present and former public officials of the city and county of Kalamazoo, asking for money damages in the amount of one million seven hundred thousand dollars.
It appears that in January, 1945, upon jury trial in which he was represented by defendant Eric V. Brown as court-appointed counsel, plaintiff Copley was convicted of first-degree murder and on January 18th of that year…
2Cases cited41 opinions
- Palko v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Screws v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
- Tenney v. BrandhoveSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Snowden v. HughesSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Spies v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Pugliano v. StaziakDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1964
- Dyer v. Kazuhisa AbeDistrict Court, D. Hawaii · 1956
- German v. KilleenDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1980
- Crawford v. LydickDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1959
- Mattheis v. HoytDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1955
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