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WANSLEY v. WILKERSON

No. 66-C-29-C.

263 F.Supp. 54 (1967)

Thomas Carlton WANSLEY, Petitioner, v. Sgt. J. A. WILKERSON, City Sergeant, City of Lynchburg, Lynchburg City Jail, Lynchburg, Virginia, Respondent.

United States District Court W. D. Virginia, Charlottesville Division.

January 10, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip J. Hirschkop, Lainof, Cohen, Cohen & Hirschkop, Alexandria, Va., William M. Kunstler, Kunstler, Kunstler & Kinoy, New York City, for petitioner.

Royston Jester, III, Commonwealth's Atty. for City of Lynchburg, Jester & Jester, Lynchburg, Va., for respondent.

OPINION

MICHIE, District Judge.

Petitioner, presently bound over in the Lynchburg City Jail pending retrial on two indictments of rape and one of robbery, has applied to this Court for a writ of habeas corpus. He claims two substantive grounds of relief: first, that his prolonged detention is improper and, second, that the persistent denial of bail by state authorities is inconsistent with the Eighth and the Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution...

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