Legal Opinion
Limmie West, III v. State of Louisiana
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 5, 1973No. 72-1338PublishedCited by 186 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
Limmie West was convicted of armed robbery after a jury trial in the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, Louisiana. On June 12, 1969, he was sentenced to forty-nine years and six months at hard labor. He did not appeal his conviction. A year after his conviction he filed a petition for habeas-corpus in the state trial court. West’s petition alleged that his lawyer, private-ly retained, had conferred with him for only five minutes before the trial, had no opportunity to subpoena witnesses, and had no time to prepare an effective defense. After holding an…
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