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NORRIS v. SLAYTON

No. 72-1428.

540 F.2d 1241 (1976)

James Henry NORRIS, Appellant, v. A. E. SLAYTON, Jr., etc., Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Remanded December 24, 1974.

Decided September 16, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Lane Kneedler, Charlottesville, Va. [Court-appointed counsel], for appellant.

Gilbert W. Haith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, BUTZNER, Circuit Judge, and FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.

FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge:

James Henry Norris, a prisoner of the State of Virginia under a conviction for the crime of rape, filed a petition in the district court for habeas corpus relief. Primarily Norris charged that his pretrial confrontation with the complaining witness was so impermissibly suggestive and conducive to mistaken identification that her in-court identification of him should not have been allowed, and that he was denied due process of law by the...

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