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· 5/8/1996

Walter Washington Young v. Donald T. Vaughn the Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania the District Attorney for Philadelphia County

Citations

  • 83 F.3d 72
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 10694
  • 1996 WL 231007

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that petitioner \may attack his [predicate] conviction in the context of his challenge to the sentence he is presently serving\
  • holding that petitioner “may attack his [predicate] conviction in the context of his challenge to the sentence he is presently serving”
  • holding that \a prisoner may attack his current sentence by a habeas challenge to the constitutionality of an expired conviction if that conviction was used to enhance his current sentence\
  • holding that \a prisoner may attack his current sentence by a habeas challenge to the constitutionality of an expired conviction if that conviction was used to enhance his current sentence\
  • holding that \a prisoner may attack his current sentence by a habeas challenge to the constitutionality of an expired conviction if that conviction was used to enhance his current sentence\
  • construing habeas petition to attack the current sentence as opposed to the expired conviction, and allowing that petitioner may attack the expired conviction as having improperly enhanced or resulted in the present sentence

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Judges: Becker, McKee, McKay

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