Court Opinion

ID: 9455839
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:35:05.246713+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:45.412923
License: Public Domain

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge
(concurring) :
I suppose that Carafas v. La Vallee, 391 U.S. 234, 88 S.Ct. 1556, 20 L.Ed.2d 554, requires us to put on our habeas corpus glasses and rule on this crummy motion picture for stag parties. And, so I concur.
But what we feel we have to do here should be abolished by someone — Congress or. the Supreme Court of the United States.
Here we have a state misdemeanor conviction with 90 days of jail time plus some probation. Pinkus, having exhausted state remedies, got his petition for federal habeas corpus going as soon as he started serving his time. (He has long ago served it.)
Historically the writ of habeas corpus has been known as the Great Writ. After we review the state courts on a few more dirty pictures and then some traffic convictions from the state side, we can call it the Silly Writ.