Legal Opinion
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Cavell
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 30, 1965No. 590, 630PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHERIDAN, Chief Judge.
Petitioner, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview, Belle-fonte, Pennsylvania, filed two petitions for a writ of habeas corpus, which have been consolidated for disposition. They question the legality of petitioner’s confinement under a sentence of life imprisonment for the 1956 murder of one Juan C. Otero.
The first petition, filed to No. 590 Habeas Corpus, raised several issues, but there was a misunderstanding on which issues were to be considered, and the hearing was limited to the voluntariness of certain statements made to the police prior to…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Pointer v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Ker v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Massiah v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by18 opinions
- United States of America Ex Rel. Donald Howard Montgomery v. Joseph R. Brierley, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969
- United States v. BlalockDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1966
- Commonwealth v. BurgosSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1972
- State v. HallSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1970
- United States of America Ex Rel. Edward F. Mahoney v. J. E. Lavallee, as Warden of Auburn State Prison, Auburn, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1968
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