Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Albert Curtis v. Hon. John Zelker, Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Stormville, New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 17, 1972No. 900, Docket 72-1536PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:
The Superintendent of New York’s Green Haven Correctional Facility at Stormville, New York, appeals from a judgment of the district court for the Southern District of New York granting a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 to Albert Curtis, a state prisoner serving a sentence of from 20 years to life as a result of his plea of guilty to second degree murder in 1963, on the ground that his guilty plea was not knowingly and intelligently made. We reverse.
On May 3, 1963, a Bronx County Grand Jury filed an indictment charging Curtís, then 25 years old, with…
2Cases cited37 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
32 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by69 opinions
- United States v. BarkerCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Andrew Jackson RobertsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Claude Francis Roddy, Jr. v. Harold E. Black, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1975
- United States v. Winfield L. Roberts, A/K/A WinCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1977
- Edward H. Harned, Jr. v. Robert J. Henderson, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
64 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.