Legal Opinion
Coleman v. Vasquez
District Court, N.D. California
Decided August 21, 1991No. C 89-1906 RFPPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
PECKHAM, District Judge.
Petitioner Russell Coleman was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in 1981. His conviction and sentence were affirmed in their entirety by the Supreme Court of California in 1988. People v. Coleman, 46 Cal.3d 749, 251 Cal.Rptr. 83, 759 P.2d 1260 (1988). That court then denied his petition for habeas corpus without comment in 1990. 1
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, Coleman filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in this court. On July 10, 1991, this court ordered the proceedings stayed for 120 days so that petitioner’s counsel could conduct…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Rose v. LundySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- McCleskey v. ZantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Sanders v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Vasquez v. HillerySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- People v. ColemanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1988
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Bernard Lee Hamilton v. Daniel Vasquez, Warden of San Quentin the Attorney General of the State of CaliforniaCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1994
- Markham Duff-Smith v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional DivisionCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1992
- Cherrix v. BraxtonDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 2000
- Ashmus v. CalderonDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1997
- Gordon v. VasquezDistrict Court, E.D. California · 1994
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