Legal Opinion
Donegan v. McWherter
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
Decided January 30, 1987No. Civ. A. 3:86-0544PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION, ORDER AND CERTIFICATE OF PROBABLE CAUSE
NEESE, Senior District Judge,
Sitting by Designation and Assignment.
The petitioner Mr. Morris Radford Donegan applied pro se for the federal writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he is in the custody of the respondent-warden pursuant to a judgment of his conviction of June 23, 1983 in the Criminal Court of Tennessee for its 18th judicial district (comprising Sumner County) in violation of the federal Constitution, Sixth Amendment, Right to the Assistance of Counsel Clause and Right to an Impartial Jury Clause, and Fourteenth Amendment,…
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