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JOHNSON v. WYRICK

No. 74-1684.

508 F.2d 123 (1974)

James Burl JOHNSON, Petitioner, v. Donald W. WYRICK, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 5, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven C. Cross, Des Moines, Iowa, for petitioner.

George H. Perry, Asst. U. S. Atty., Des Moines, Iowa, for respondent.

Before GIBSON, Chief Judge, CLARK, Associate Justice, Retired, and WEBSTER, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

Petitioner James Burl Johnson, a prisoner in the Missouri State Penitentiary, appeals from the District Court's1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. In its memorandum opinion the District Court reviewed the extensive history of petitioner's successive direct and collateral attacks on his 1954 conviction and forty-year sentence for rape. That history, which includes eight previous federal habeas corpus petitions...

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