Legal Opinion
Soulia v. O'BRIEN
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided December 26, 1950No. Civ. 50-73PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FORD, District Judge.
On June 29, 1950 this court, in a memorandum decision, 91 F.Supp. 965, dismissed without prejudice an application by the petitioner, imprisoned in the Massachusetts State Prison under a sentence of death, for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that petitioner had not applied to the Supreme Court of the United States for a writ of certiorari and, therefore, had not exhausted his “available state remedies.” Darr v. Burford, 339 U.S. 200, 212, 70 S.Ct. 587.
On July 11, 1950 the petitioner applied for a writ of certiorari to review the Massachusetts state court decision in…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Powell v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Mooney v. HolohanSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Darr v. BurfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Brown v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Avery v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Brown v. AllenSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- United States Ex Rel. Almeida v. BaldiCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1952
- Pedro Amado Torres v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959
- Trimble v. StateNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1965
- Harry Morris Sherman v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1957
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