Legal Opinion
Lumpkin v. Smith
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided February 13, 1970No. Civ. A. No. 12830PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
EDENFIELD, District Judge.
Petitioner, a state prisoner, has filed an application for habeas corpus relief from his conviction and life sentence for the offense of rape, imposed on June 16, 1967, in the Superior Court of Fulton County.
With the clarifications made by the evidentiary hearing before this court, it appears that petitioner rests his request for relief on three grounds: absence of counsel during lineup and an absence of fundamental fairness during the lineup; jury discrimination; and ineffective assistance of counsel, in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- United States v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
20 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by4 opinions
- Amos Lumpkin v. James Ricketts, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- Amos Lumpkin v. Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
- Will Wright v. S. Lamont Smith, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, GeorgiaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Artis Lavender v. Joe S. Hopper, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977