Legal Opinion
Santos Valentin Ruiz v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 31, 1966No. 15825PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMaris, Circuit Judge
opinion of the court
This is an appeal by Santos Valentin Ruiz, a prisoner in the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, from ah order of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, denying the prisoner’s petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 for the correction of his sentence of life imprisonment by the substitution of a sentence for a term of years. The prisoner had been charged in the Virgin Islands with murder in the first degree to which he had pleaded not guilty. Subsequently he withdrew that plea and entered a plea of guilty of murder in the second degree upon which the district court…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- United States v. HaymanSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Bozza v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- United States Ex Rel. Leguillou v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1954
- Bailey v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1934
- Henry Hayes v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Ishmail Muslin Ali (Formerly Ishmael X. La Beet) v. Winston Gibson, Commissioner of Public SafetyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1978
- Ronnie Lee Launius, Carroll Evan Sherrill, Paul Junior Ballard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1978
- Government of the Virgin Islands v. Don BerryCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
- United States v. Edward William LancerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1975
- United States v. George Martin GolayCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1977
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