Legal Opinion
Murphy v. State of Florida
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided November 1, 1973No. 73-151-Civ.-CAPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER DENYING PETITION FOR HABEAS CORPUS
ATKINS, District Judge.
Petitioner, Jack Roland Murphy, is before the Court upon filing of his second Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. 1 In the instant petition, Murphy contends that his confinement, which stems from a 1970 conviction in Dade County Criminal Court, is unlawful in that (1) the trial court erred by denying his motion for a change of venue in light of allegedly prejudicial pre-trial publicity; (2) the trial court failed to dismiss for cause those jurors who knew that Petitioner was a convicted felon; (3) the trial court committed…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Irvin v. DowdSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCannSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- McNabb v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Reynolds v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Clyde Snyder v. Ira M. Coiner, Warden, West Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1975
- Jack Roland Murphy v. State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- Marshall v. StateDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1995
- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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