MATTHES, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal from an order of the district court denying habeas corpus relief poses a unique question—whether the escape of appellant following his state conviction constituted a deliberate bypass of state remedies so as to disentitle him to relief under the equitable principles governing habeas corpus.
In May of 1971, appellant, Neal Ruetz, was convicted by a jury in the LaGrange County, Indiana, Circuit Court of first...
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