PER CURIAM:
We think the writ of habeas corpus was improvidently granted by the District Court, for available state remedies are unexhausted.
In 1952 Wade was convicted of the murder of a fellow prisoner in the Virginia State Penitentiary. He was represented at the trial by a competent, court-assigned lawyer, who, ten years later, died. There was no appeal.
In 1966, fourteen years after the trial and four years after the death of his lawyer, Wade for...
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