Legal Opinion
Lue Elbert Sullivan v. Frank Blackburn, Warden Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 28, 1986No. 86-3175PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Chief Judge:
Lue Elbert Sullivan appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm the district court’s judgment.
I
In 1973, a Louisiana jury convicted Sullivan of second degree murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed his conviction without opinion. In 1979 Sullivan’s first federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the United States district court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and the Fifth Circuit affirmed the denial without opinion. In 1984 Sullivan filed petitions in Louisiana…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Cupp v. NaughtenSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- United States v. HarrissSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Henderson v. KibbeSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- United States v. BatchelderSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- State v. RoySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1981
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3Cited by17 opinions
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