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REES v. PEYTON

No. 321, Misc.

384 U.S. 312 (1966)

REES v. PEYTON, PENITENTIARY SUPERINTENDENT.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 31, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. White Rhyne, Jr., and Charles A. Dukes, Jr., for petitioner.

Reno S. Harp III, Assistant Attorney General of Virginia, for respondent.

Monroe H. Freedman and Melvin L. Wulf for the American Civil Liberties Union et al., as amici curiae, in support of the petition.

PER CURIAM.

Following a related federal conviction and life sentences for kidnapping, United States v. Rees, 193 F.Supp. 849, Melvin Davis Rees, Jr., was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by a state court in Virginia, and the judgment was affirmed on appeal in 1962. Rees v. Commonwealth, 203 Va. 850,

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