Legal Opinion
Thergood v. Tedford
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided January 12, 1978No. Civ. B-76-202PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
ZAMPANO, District Judge.
In this application for a writ of habeas corpus, filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, petitioner Anthony Thergood contends his state court conviction was constitutionally tainted by the trial judge’s rulings which restricted the cross-examination of an admitted accomplice and the prosecution’s principal witness, Robert Shipman. 1
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The record reveals that on December 20, 1974, Mrs. Barbara Wilson was walking along a street in Bridgeport when a youth, later identified as Shipman, seized and ripped open her pocketbook, causing the contents to fall to…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Wainwright v. SykesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Picard v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Carafas v. LaValleeSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Raymond Walker, Cross-Appellant v. Ted Engle, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983
- Hector Alburquerque v. Raymond Bara, Superintendent of Queensboro Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Hector Alburquerque v. Raymond Bara, Superintendent of Queensboro Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
- Raymond Walker, Cross-Appellant v. Ted Engle, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1983