Legal Opinion

Frank C. Dillon, Chief Probation Department, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado v. Wendell Austin Peters

Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Decided February 13, 1965No. 7740_1PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from an order of the District Court for the District of Colorado, entered in a habeas corpus proceeding, declaring appellee’s state court conviction to be “null and void.” 1 The order was entered after a full evidentiary hearing 2 and a determination that appellee’s conviction had been premised upon the introduction in the Colorado state court of evidence obtained by an illegal search and seizure and that appellee had exhausted his state remedies. Peters v. Dillon, D.Colo., 227 F.Supp. 487. The legal basis for the trial court’s ruling is founded upon…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Jackson v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Fay v. NoiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Willie E. Pendergrast v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
  2. United States of America Ex Rel. Anthony Bruno v. Ross E. Herold, M.D., Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Dannemora, NewyorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
  3. Bennie Joe Hayden v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
  4. Barnes v. StateSupreme Court of Kansas · 1969
  5. Wayne K. Patterson, Warden, Colorado State Penitentiary v. Homer Brown, 34946, and Oswald Glymph, 34945, AppellewsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1968

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