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- Title: Townsend v. Sain
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 18, 1963
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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This case, in its present posture raising questions as to the right to a plenary hearing in federal habeas corpus, comes to us once again after a tangle of prior proceedings. In 1955 the petitioner, Charles Townsend, was tried before a jury for murder in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois. At his trial petitioner, through his court-appointed counsel, the public defender, objected to the