Legal Opinion
James Henry Latney, Able-Bodied Seaman, United States Merchant Marine v. Paul R. Ignatius, Secretary of the Navy
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 30, 1969No. 21681PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Per curiam
This appellant here challenges the District Court’s dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under circumstances and with respect to issues which we will set forth in some detail.
On August 11, 1967, appellant was arrested by military police in DaNang, South Vietnam, and was subsequently charged with premeditated murder 1 in connection with the fatal stabbing of one Trimm in Mamasan’s Beach Bar, DaNang East. Both men were American merchant seamen serving aboard the S.S. Amtank, 2 an American-owned oil tanker under time charter to the Navy’s Military Sea Transportation Service. On…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- O'Callahan v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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