Legal Opinion
Irvin Russell Jones v. H. C. Cupp, Warden, Oregon State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1971No. 71-1034PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court denying petitioner’s application for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner contends that the district court should have granted the writ because (1) his guilty plea to second-degree murder was induced by an allegedly coerced confession, (2) the plea was induced by a promise of leniency, and (3) the State of Oregon has arbitrarily refused to apply a 1963 reduction in the penalty for second-degree murder to his 1941 conviction. We affirm.
The murder which gave rise to the conviction occurred on the night of July 17, 1941, in The…
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