Legal Opinion
Pigee v. Israel
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided December 22, 1980No. Civ. A. 80-C-704PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
TERENCE T. EVANS, District Judge.
Before the court is the petition of Willie Lee Pigee for the issuance of a writ of habeas corpus.
This petition is one of many submitted following the decision in Sandstrom v. Montana, 442 U.S. 510, 99 S.Ct. 2450, 61 L.Ed.2d 39 (1979), declaring unconstitutional a Montana jury instruction involving criminal intent. The Supreme Court found that the instruction could have been interpreted by the jury in a manner that would deny a defendant his right to due process of law. Because a Wisconsin jury instruction used at petitioner’s trial for…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Griffin v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by14 opinions
- People v. WoodsMichigan Supreme Court · 1983
- Bowman v. LeveretteWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
- James Lee Lampkins v. John R. Gagnon, Warden, and Bronson C. Lafollette, Attorney General of the State of WisconsinCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- State v. NyeCourt of Appeals of Wisconsin · 1981
- Austin v. IsraelDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1981
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