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· 6/23/1961

Frank Jimmy Snider, Jr. v. W. K. Cunningham, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary

Citations

  • 292 F.2d 683
  • 1961 U.S. App. LEXIS 4096

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  • “A prisoner who insists that he did not commit a crime can hardly be forced by his counsel to confess it in order to support a tenuous defense of insanity,”

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Judges: Sobeloff, Haynsworth, Boreman

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