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LAWRENCE v. HENDERSON

No. 72-2553.

478 F.2d 705 (1973)

James LAWRENCE L.S.P. #66555, Petitioner-Appellee, v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Respondent-Appellant,

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 11, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clement Story, III, Asst. Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, New Orleans, La., for respondent-appellant.

Louis B. Merhige, New Orleans, La., for petitioner-appellee.

Before BELL and THORNBERRY, Circuit Judges, and GROOMS, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 11, 1973.

THORNBERRY, Circuit Judge:

Appellee Lawrence was convicted in 1968 in a Louisiana court of heroin possession and sentenced to a twelve-year term of imprisonment. He petitioned the district court below for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted conditionally.1 The Louisiana Prison Warden appeals. Finding his five assignments of error to be without merit, we affirm.

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