Legal Opinion
United States ex rel. Resseguie v. Follette
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 3, 1969No. 68 Civil 4315PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.
Petitioner, Charles Resseguie, currently serving a ten to twenty-year sentence imposed after his plea of guilty in April, 1951, to robbery in the first degree, seeks his release upon a federal writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner was named in the same indictment with his brother George, who also pled guilty at the same time. Charles was sentenced as a first felony offender; George, as a second felony offender, to a term of twenty to forty years. In 1957 George successfully attacked the underlying 1933 conviction which was the predicate for his sentence as a second…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Williams v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- United States v. John Christopher DoyleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by3 opinions
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- Cammack v. New YorkDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1978
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