Supreme Court· 6/23/1947

Sunal v. Large

Citations

332 U.S. 174
67 S. Ct. 1588
91 L. Ed. 1982
1947 U.S. LEXIS 2028

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holding that, absent exceptional circumstances, defendants may not use collateral relief as a substitute for appeal
stating that “the writ is not designed for collateral review of ... the existence of any evidence to support the conviction”
“It cannot be said that absence of counsel made the appeals unavailable as a practical matter.”
\It cannot be said that absence of counsel made the appeals unavailable as a practical matter.\
petitioners were part of concerted test case effort in which some judgments were appealed while others were not
absent extraordinary circumstances, the remedy of habeas corpus is not available to defendants “who accept the judgment of [the trial court] and do not appeal”

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