Legal Opinion

Marcelino Navedo Santos v. United States

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided July 25, 1962No. 5940PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order summarily denying a motion to vacate sentence brought under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2255.

The appellant and another were jointly indicted on September 21, 1950, by a grand jury in the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for murder in the first degree. The charge was that they beat a man to death with a baseball bat on property of the United States and under its exclusive jurisdiction in San Juan. The court promptly appointed counsel for each defendant and on arraignment on October 27, 1950, continued from October 6 at…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Hill v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
  2. Edward B. Bishop v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1955
  3. United States v. RosenbergCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1952

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Van Dusen v. StateSupreme Court of Kansas · 1966
  2. Glendel D. Wheeler v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
  3. Herman Edward Nelms v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
  4. Mirra v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1966
  5. Robert Wilburn Fisher v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963

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