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· 9/11/1974

Knight v. Henderson

Citations

  • 500 F.2d 389
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 6923

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “It is well settled that illegal arrest or detention of a suspect does not void a subsequent conviction.” (citing Gerstein v. Pugh, 420 U.S. 103, 119 (1975))
  • claim that arrest was illegal because 5 warrant was defective, and thus the petitioner’s statements made incident to the 6 arrest should be excluded, held to be barred by Stone v. Powell

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