Legal Opinion
James E. Jones v. State of Wisconsin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 20, 1977No. 77-1104PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECKER, District Judge.
I
This action was brought by petitioner-appellant, James E. Jones, to obtain a writ of habeas corpus. He contends that under Wisconsin law his plea of guilty must be vacated because it was entered after an erroneous ruling of the Wisconsin trial court admitting the in-court identifications of the appellant by two eye-witnesses to the crime. Jones argues that these identifications were tainted by previous improper and highly suggestive identification procedures.
While the trial judge found that these earlier identifications were obtained by “unconstitutionally suggestive”…
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