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Constitutional Law-Federal Criminal Procedure-Right To Counsel Under Section 2255 Of The Judicial Code, Gerald J. Laba May 1964

Constitutional Law-Federal Criminal Procedure-Right To Counsel Under Section 2255 Of The Judicial Code, Gerald J. Laba

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner, seeking to attack a conviction for illegal possession of narcotics, was granted leave to sue in form a pauperis under 28 U.S.C. section 2255, but his request that counsel be appointed for him was denied. Petitioner's section 2255 motion to vacate judgment was denied. Petitioner then entered a second section 2255 petition alleging basically the same errors but adding that the court had erred in not appointing counsel for his first petition. The second motion was denied without a hearing on the ground that it was "the second or successive motion for similar relief .... " Petitioner appealed in …


Constitutional Law--Due Process Of The Fourteenth Amendment--Right To Counsel In Non-Capital State Felony Prosecutions, Marvin Lee Henderson Jan 1964

Constitutional Law--Due Process Of The Fourteenth Amendment--Right To Counsel In Non-Capital State Felony Prosecutions, Marvin Lee Henderson

Kentucky Law Journal

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