STRONG

v.

LOUISIANA

Citator

Cited By

• LaCHAPPELLE v. Moran, 699 F.2d 560 (1st Cir. 1983)
  …ur conclusion in this respect is strengthened by our view that defendants’ attendance at the conference was not needed in order to enable him to present a complete defense. Cf. Jackson v. Beto, 388 F. 2d 409 (5th Cir.1968), vacated on other grounds, 408 U.S. 937, 92 S.Ct. 2866, 33 L.Ed.2d 757 (1972) (confrontation clause does not require defendant’s presence at hearing to determine whether mentally retarded witness was competent to testify). LaChappelle argues that had he been physically present at the conf…
• Sellars v. Estelle, 536 F.2d 1104 (5th Cir. 1976)
  …965). Sellars contends that he was denied due process and equal protection of law when the Governor commuted his sentence to 99 years imprisonment, after his death sentence had been vacated by the Supreme Court of the United States. Sellars v. Beto, 408 U.S. 937, 92 S.Ct. 2865, 33 L.Ed.2d 756 (1972). Petitioner contends that the Governor’s commutation denied him his absolute right under Texas law to be resentenced by a jury, thus violating his constitutional rights to Fourteenth Amendment due process and eq…