Coons

Coons v. Boyd

Good Law
203 F.2d 804·1953 U.S. App. LEXIS 3433
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitApril 24, 195313595California268 words

Opinion

Opinion

The appellant filed in the court below an application for a writ of habeas corpus alleging that she was unlawfully confined and restrained of her liberty by the appel-lee pursuant to certain orders in deportation proceedings conducted by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. The petition discloses that its purpose is to procure a review of those deportation proceedings. The principal basis for a claim of invalidity in those proceedings which appears in the petition, is that appellant was denied due process of law by the Immigration authorities in that she was not represented by counsel and that she was otherwise denied a fair hearing. At the trial and in this court there was added the further claim that appellant was a citizen in that as an infant she was adopted in Canada by a couple who migrated to the United States and were granted citizenship here.

We are unable to find any merit in the appeal. The hearing at which appellant was found deportable as an alien found practicing prostitution in this country was not shown .to have been lacking in fairness or due process, and the lack of representation by counsel was waived by the appellant after receipt of…

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