GATES

v.

CALIFORNIA

Citator

Cited By

• Cotton v. United States, 446 F.2d 107 (8th Cir. 1971)
  …t is argued that defendant is not a person who could effectively waive his constitutional rights. The Fifth Circuit, dealing with a case closely related, rejected such a contention. West v. United States, 399 F. 2d 467 (5th Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1102, 89 S.Ct. 903, 21 L.Ed.2d 795 (1969). See also United States ex rel. Richardson v. Vitek, 395 F. 2d 478 (7th Cir. 1968). Along this same line, defendant points out that he could not even spell the word “true” after the district judge spelled it for…
• Paxton v. Jarvis, 735 F.2d 1306 (11th Cir. 1984)
  …ioner's interrogation and that petition was informed of the Miranda rights. There is ample support for these findings in the record. After examining the factors enunci~ ated in West v. United States, 399 F. 2d 467, 469 (5th Cir.1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1102, 89 S.Ct. 903, 21 L.Ed.2d 795 (1969), we hold that petitioner's confession was voluntary.2 The factors of greatest significance in this case are that petitioner [*1310] was almost sixteen years old, members of petitioner’s family had ample contact w…
• United States ex rel. George L. Spears H-7506 v. Johnson, 463 F.2d 1024 (3d Cir. 1972)
  …el for Spears was denied the right to make a summation to the trial court is clearly erroneous and is not fairly supported by the record as a whole. See 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) (8). See West v. United States, 399 F. 2d 467 (5th Cir. 1968), cert. denied, 393 U.S. 1102, 89 S.Ct. 903, 21 L.Ed.2d 795 (1969); Commonwealth v. McCray, 212 Pa.Super. 457, 243 A. 2d 453 (1968). For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the district court will be reversed and the case remanded for proceedings consistent with this opinion…