(Download) "Rogers v. Wainwright" by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rogers v. Wainwright
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 17, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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This appeal is from the denial of two habeas corpus petitions attacking the validity of petitioner's 1950 murder conviction and his 1961 rape conviction. Petitioner contends that the murder conviction is invalid for several reasons, the main one being that his confession was involuntary. The rape conviction is attacked on the ground that the guilty plea was coerced. The district court denied relief without a hearing. We affirm the dismissal of the petitions. There is the initial consideration of whether the two life sentences imposed were concurrent or consecutive. An examination of the record convinces us they were concurrent. Therefore, if either of them is valid, petitioner is not entitled to habeas relief. Brown v. Beto, 5th Cir. 1967, 377 F.2d 950.