PELL, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by Charles Townsend, petitioner in the district court and a prisoner in Stateville Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois, from the dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Noting our jurisdiction to entertain this appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, we have considered the merits of the appeal on the record and briefs filed herein, without oral argument, pursuant to Rule 2, Fed.R.App.P.
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