Legal Opinion
Fisher v. Scafati
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 30, 1969No. Misc. Civ. No. 69-2-GPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GARRITY, District Judge.
Petitioner is seeking issuance of a writ of habeas corpus. He is presently in the custody of respondent pursuant to a stayed sentence of death upon conviction for murder in the first degree in the Massachusetts Superior Court for Hampden County after a trial which began on September 26, 1966. By a previous order the court limited consideration of the petition to petitioner’s claim that the denial of his motion to suppress and admission into evidence of his confession was in contravention of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Miranda…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Mathis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Orozco v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Commonwealth v. MarabelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1971
- People v. AlgienSupreme Court of Colorado · 1972
- People v. BrannanMichigan Supreme Court · 1979
- Scafati v. FisherSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Borodine v. DouzanisDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1978
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