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RUSSELL v. PARRATT

No. 76-1313.

543 F.2d 1214 (1976)

Patrick Ronald RUSSELL, Appellant, v. Robert PARRATT, Warden, Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett G. Hornstein, Asst. Public Defender, Omaha, Neb., for appellant; Frank B. Morrison, Douglas County Public Defender, on the brief.

Ralph H. Gillan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., for appellee; Paul L. Douglas, Atty. Gen., on the brief.

Before BRIGHT and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges, and TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

TALBOT SMITH, Senior District Judge.

The appellant before us (hereafter defendant), Patrick Ronald Russell, seeks habeas corpus relief from his conviction, in the District Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, for first degree murder. The United States District Court for the District of Nebraska1 denied relief. We affirm.

The essential facts underlying the conviction are not complex and were summarized by the Nebraska Supreme Court...

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