Legal Opinion
Paul T. Lyons v. Joseph R. Brierley
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 18, 1970No. 18370PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FREEDMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal raises the question whether the district court had jurisdiction to consider a habeas corpus attack on the validity of a fully served sentence petitioner was required to complete which thereby postponed the commencement of his service of a later sentence on another unchallenged conviction for which he is still incarcerated.
In 1962 petitioner was convicted of larceny in the state court in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and sentenced to a term of imprisonment not to exceed five years. He was paroled more than two years later and while on…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Ginsberg v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Peyton v. RoweSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Fiswick v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Thomas Ribble Tucker, Jr. v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Kenneth Warren Hanson v. Circuit Court of the First Judicial Circuit of IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1979
- David Harrison v. State of IndianaCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1979
- United States of America Ex Rel. David Green H-5527 v. Alfred T. Rundle, Supt.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1971
- Cook v. MalengCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1988
- Roger G. Flittie v. Herman Solem, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary Mark Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South DakotaCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1989
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