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PRUITT v. PEYTON

Misc. No. 4517.

243 F.Supp. 907 (1965)

Calvin W. PRUITT, Petitioner, v. C. C. PEYTON, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

July 27, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael L. Soffin, Richmond, Va., for petitioner.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., for respondent.

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

Following the remand of this case1 the Court directed a plenary hearing for the initial sole purpose of determining whether the petitioner knowingly and understandingly abandoned or deliberately bypassed the state court system in the course of procedures adopted by him in exhausting his state court remedies by way of habeas corpus.

Immediately the question arose as to the admissibility of correspondence...

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