Legal Opinion

Schwartz v. Pitts

District Court, E.D. Tennessee

Decided February 15, 1977No. Civ. No. 1-76-184PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM

FRANK W. WILSON, Chief Judge.

This action is upon a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed.pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The petitioner seeks to have his criminal conviction set aside, alleging that numerous constitutional errors were committed in the course of his trial. The petitioner was tried and convicted of second degree murder in “State of Tennessee v. Alvin Gene Schwartz,” Docket # 127494 in the Criminal Court of Hamilton County, Tennessee. Upon conviction the petitioner was sentenced to the Tennessee State Penitentiary and is presently confined in the Hamilton County…

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3Cited by1 opinion

Schwartz v. PittsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977