Legal Opinion
Robert William Losieau v. Maurice H. Sigler, Warden, Nebraska State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 28, 1969No. 19178PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEANEY, Circuit Judge.
The petitioner has spent most of his adult life in prison. This habeas corpus appeal is the culmination of efforts on his part to have a 1952 Nebraska conviction and sentence as a habitual criminal set aside so that his prison terms, if served to completion, would expire in 1982 rather than 1987. 1 To set the 1952 conviction aside, it is necessary to find that the petitioner was deprived of the right to appointed counsel at a critical stage in the 1939 and 1945 criminal proceedings on which the habitual criminal sentence was based. 2 The trial court held that it was not…
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3Cited by63 opinions
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