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EDWARDS v. STATE OF LOUISIANA

No. 73-3795 Summary Calendar.

496 F.2d 904 (1974)

Robert Anthony EDWARDS, Petitioner-Appellee. v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 3, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara B. Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jesse J. Marks, Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., New Orleans, La., for respondent-appellant.

Donald C. Theriot, Baton Rouge, La. (Court-appointed), for petitioner-appellee.

Before GEWIN, GODBOLD and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

No direct appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court was ever perfected on behalf of Robert Anthony Edwards by his privately retained attorney, Peter J. Compagno, from his 1967 conviction for armed robbery and concomitant twenty-five year sentence at hard labor in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. In 1971 Edwards petitioned the State trial court for a writ of habeas corpus, asserting ineffective counsel, arrest without probable cause, introduction of illegal...

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