Legal Opinion
George Schmidt, C8126 v. Lowell D. Hewitt, Supt
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 24, 1978No. 17-2408PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
George Schmidt, a state prisoner serving a sentence of life imprisonment for first-degree murder, appeals from the denial of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. He contends: (1) that he was deprived of due process of law when, while still a juvenile, he was committed for trial as an adult, without ever being brought before juvenile court; and (2) that he was convicted on the basis of a confession inadmissible under the United States Constitution. Without conducting an evidentiary hearing of its own, the district court rejected Schmidt’s…
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