Legal Opinion
Wright v. Smith
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided June 15, 1977No. Civ-74-464PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIN, Chief Judge.
Petitioner William E. Wright was convicted of robbery in the first degree and robbery in the second degree (violations of New York Penal Law §§ 160.15 and 160.10, respectively) on August 3, 1972, following a jury trial in Erie County Court. In his application to this court for a writ of habe-as corpus, petitioner has presented four grounds which he claims require reversal of his conviction:(1) the pre-trial identification procedures were unnecessarily and impermissi-bly suggestive;(2) the double jeopardy ban of the fifth amendment of the Constitution was violated when the…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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- In Re WINSHIPSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- North Carolina v. PearceSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Neil v. BiggersSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- Pulley v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1978
- Simmons v. DalsheimDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1982
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