John Michael Coffey v. Walter E. Craven, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom

Ninth Circuit

John Michael Coffey v. Walter E. Craven, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom

442 F.2d 1337, 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 9718

CourtCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

DecidedJune 9, 1971

Docket24858_1

StatusPublished

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John Michael Coffey v. Walter E. Craven, Warden, California State Prison at Folsom, 442 F.2d 1337, 1971 U.S. App. LEXIS 9718 (9th Cir. 1971).

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PER CURIAM:

The order granting a writ of habeas corpus is reversed.

We find that Coffey’s psychiatric evidence based upon observation years later was too remote to be of much value in this case in evaluating the situation at the time of trial.

The record seems clear that the state trial judge had no doubt as to the competency of Coffey at any critical time.

We cannot find that the happenings in the state process at the trial or in the legal processes preceding the trial show any denial of any federal constitutional right.

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PER CURIAM:

The order granting a writ of habeas corpus is reversed.

We find that Coffey’s psychiatric evidence based upon observation years later was too remote to be of much value in this case in evaluating the situation at the time of trial.

The record seems clear that the state trial judge had no doubt as to the competency of Coffey at any critical time.

We cannot find that the happenings in the state process at the trial or in the legal processes preceding the trial show any denial of any federal constitutional right.

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