Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Sullivan
District Court, D. Utah
Decided September 24, 1952PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RITTER, District Judge.
On February 20, 1952, Melvin Leroy Sullivan and Verne Alfred Braasch filed in this court a Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. On March 14, 1952, Petitioners filed their Amended Petition. They alleged that they were to be put to death the morning of February 26, 1952, by the Warden of the Utah State Penitentiary pursuant to a Judgment and Commitment of the Fifth Judicial District Court of Utah. That Judgment, they claim, is void because the proceedings which led up to it are not in conformity to the standards of fairness and justice required under the Fourteenth…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Ex Parte HawkSupreme Court of the United States · 1944
- Sacher v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
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3Cited by34 opinions
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- Calvin L. Ricks v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964
- Denzel Milton Lee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1963
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