Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Smith
District Court, S.D. Georgia
Decided June 4, 1969No. Civ. A. No. 2398PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LAWRENCE, Chief Judge.
This is another habeas corpus case in which a State prisoner complains of deprivation of constitutional rights and no transcript of the proceedings at his arraignment and sentencing is available. The failure of many courts in Georgia to report stenographically what is said on such occasions is most unfortunate. Trouble and expense are poor answers. It is annoying to find the State constantly relying in these § 2241 cases upon the recollections of officials concerning what was said and done at sentencing proceedings that took place years before.
The prisoner here…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Vito Finetti v. David Harris, Superintendent of Greenhaven Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1979
- The PEOPLE v. WilliamsIllinois Supreme Court · 1970
- Turner v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1982
- Finetti v. HarrisDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1978
- Attorney General Opinion No., Kansas Attorney General Reports1994
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