Legal Opinion
Don Lee Hancock v. Lewis Tollett, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 8, 1971No. 20873PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-appellant, Don Lee Hancock, a prisoner of the State of Tennessee, appeals from denial, without eviden-tiary hearing, of his petition to a United States District Judge for a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioner, in July of 1967, had been convicted of armed rob bery, upon trial in the Circuit Court of Bedford County, Tennessee. At trial and on appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, appellant objected to the prosecution’s use of an in-court identification of him by two witnesses. He charged that such identification was the product of an…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Gilbert v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Foster v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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3Cited by14 opinions
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