Legal Opinion
Cooke v. Swope
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 21, 1940No. 9309PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.
Appeal from an order of the District Court discharging an order to show cause and' denying the writ of habeas corpus.
Petitioner pleaded guilty to charges in two indictments, waived time and was sentenced to imprisonment. Thereafter he petitioned for' the writ of habeas corpus, alleging that he was being illegally detained of his liberty because he was without the assistance of legal counsel at the time he pleaded guilty and waived time for sentence.
There is nothing in the law of the land as interpreted by the much misread Johnson v. Zerbst opinion, 1938, 304 U.S. 458,…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Johnson v. ZerbstSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Cundiff v. NicholsonCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1939
- Cooke v. SwopeDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1939
- McCoy v. HudspethCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1939
- Thompson v. KingCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1939
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Evans v. RivesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
- United States v. AchtnerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944
- O'Keith v. JohnstonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1942
- Swift v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1945
- Jorgensen v. SwopeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1940
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