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STEVENS v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

No. 10005.

382 F.2d 429 (1967)

Samuele T. STEVENS, Jr., Appellant, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 30, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Squire, Baltimore, Md. (court-assigned counsel), for appellant.

Jon F. Oster, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

Stevens, a Maryland prisoner sentenced to a term of twenty years upon a conviction of armed robbery, sought habeas corpus complaining of his representation in the trial court and of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. The sentence is shocking, but the conviction is unassailable on constitutional grounds.

In denying the petition, the District Court carefully considered the facts,1...

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