Rivers v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
January 1975
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Green v. United States · Ball v. United States · People v. Jaworski · Pennington v. Coxe · Joseph E. Mullreed v. George A. Kropp, Warden
Most-quoted passages
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““The State argues that to grant relief now is premature since Rivers has not yet been tried for murder. But delay in this case would be futile. It would thwart principles of judicial economy to require Rivers to be tried on the charge of murder and if convicted to exhaust his appeal procedures again, only to return years hence on the same issue. Therefore, “It is ordered that the petitioner be released from custody unless the State reduces the charge on the information against petitioner to not more than manslaughter.” 345 F.Supp. at 719 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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