Court Opinion

ID: 9463101
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 22:58:00.201641+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:37:55.911819
License: Public Domain

SNEED, Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
Sanders v. United States, 373 U.S. 1, 15, 83 S.Ct. 1068, 1077, 10 L.Ed.2d 148 (1963) requires that “the ends of justice” be served before controlling weight is given to denial of a prior application for habeas corpus. It is not enough that “the prior determination was on the merits.” Id. The “ends of justice” must also be served. I can not escape the belief that the petitioner has not *1370received the full and comprehensive hearing in the federal courts to which his claim entitles him even though the 1964 disposition can be said in a technical sense to be on the merits. Therefore, to accord it controlling weight does not, in my opinion, serve the ends of justice.