Legal Opinion
Dean Rene Peters v. C. P. Kiff, Warden, MacOn Prison Branch, MacOn County, Ga.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 13, 1971No. 30081_1PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:
In this appeal a Georgia state prisoner attacks the denial of his petition for the writ of habeas corpus by the district court. We affirm.
Dean Rene Peters, a white man, asks that his conviction for burglary be set aside because Negroes were systematically excluded from the grand and petit juries which indicted and convicted him. See Whitus v. Georgia, 1967, 385 U.S. *371545, 87 S.Ct. 643, 17 L.Ed.2d 599. Peters was convicted on December 8, 1966, and sentenced to a prison term of 10 years. On appeal the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction. Peters v.…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Whitus v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Dean Rene Peters v. Jack T. Rutledge, Sheriff and Jailer of Muscogee County, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
- Henry Cook Salisbury v. T. Ralph Grimes, Sheriff of Fulton County, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
- James Henry Davis v. S. Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- Russell Mosley v. Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Peters v. KiffSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Peters v. KiffSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- United States v. BrelandDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 1981
- Raymond Clarence Hill, A. C. Dutton, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- James A. Johnson v. Luther RobinsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
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