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LEDBETTER v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

No. 10154.

368 F.2d 490 (1966)

John Frank LEDBETTER, Jr., Appellee, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 22, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Randolph Victor, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on the brief) for appellant.

Robert M. Carrico, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Court-assigned counsel) for appellee.

Ronald P. Sokol, Charlottesville, Va., amicus curiæ.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, BOREMAN, BRYAN and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, sitting en banc.

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the State of Maryland from the decision of the District Court, granting appellee John Ledbetter's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Ledbetter was sentenced to life imprisonment upon his 1960 conviction in the Baltimore City Criminal Court for first degree murder. After Ledbetter has exhausted state remedies, the District Court conducted a plenary hearing on his claims, and held that oral and written statements, taken...

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