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338 U.S. 944

Docket No. 252, Misc.

Docket No. 281, Misc.

Willis v. Ragen

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 16, 1950

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1950-01-16

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Decided 1950-01-16

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Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2009

11 federal appellate ·

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¶1Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois; and

¶2Circuit Court of Marion County, Illinois. The petition for writ *945of certiorari in each of these cases is denied without consideration of the questions raised therein and without prejudice to the institution by petitioner of proceedings in any Illinois state court of competent jurisdiction under the Act of August 4, 1949, entitled: “An Act to provide a remedy for persons convicted and imprisoned in the penitentiary, who assert that rights guaranteed them by the Constitution of the United States or the State of Illinois, or both, have been denied or violated, in proceedings in which they were convicted.” Laws of Illinois, 1949, p. 722.

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