Legal Opinion
Harvey Ray Cochran v. Willard Norvell, Warden, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 13, 1971No. 20937PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CELEBREZZE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, of an order dismissing a petition for habeas corpus. This is the second time after Appellant was convicted and incarcerated in Tennessee in 1946 pursuant to a guilty plea on a charge of murder in the first degree that he has petitioned the federal courts with a writ of habeas corpus challenging the lawfulness of his state custody.
In May, 1964, the Appellant filed a petition of habeas corpus in the Western District of Tennessee in which he alleged that his…
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3Cited by11 opinions
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- United States of America Ex Rel. Tilden Louis Condon, and v. Don R. Erickson, Warden of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, AndCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972
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