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CARRINGTON v. SLAYTON

No. 73-1856.

493 F.2d 1355 (1974)

James Murray CARRINGTON, Appellant, v. A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., Superintendent, Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 29, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Stephen Ralston, New York City (Charles M. L. Mangum, Lynchburg, Va., Court-appointed, and Jack Greenberg, New York City, on brief), for appellant.

Robert E. Shepherd, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and WINTER and ADAMS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Complaining that the juries indicting and convicting him were unconstitutionally chosen through a systematic exclusion and underrepresentation of blacks, James Murray Carrington, himself a black, in his petition in habeas corpus seeks discharge from the custody of the Virginia penitentiary. He is confined pursuant to sentences in the Circuit Court of Appomatax County in 1970 for rape and in 1971 for abduction...

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