Legal Opinion
Claude O. Jones, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 3, 1962No. 8385PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
This state prisoner, Claude 0. Jones, now in the custody of the Warden of the Virginia Penitentiary under consecutive sentences aggregating thirty-nine years, claims that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel at his trial on in-formations containing three counts of breaking and entering, two of grand larceny and one of possession of burglary tools. His claim was rejected by the state courts without a hearing, and certiorari was denied by the • Supreme Court “without prejudice to an application for writ of habeas corpus in the appropriate United States…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Glasser v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Betts v. BradySupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Avery v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
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3Cited by37 opinions
- McMann v. RichardsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Charles Earl Brubaker v. Fred R. Dickson, Warden of the California State Prison at San Quentin, CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1962
- Nathan Thomas v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Cecal Bell v. State of AlabamaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- Claude O. Jones, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
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