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MELOON v. HELGEMOE

No. 77-1197.

564 F.2d 602 (1977)

Thomas E. MELOON, Petitioner, Appellee, v. Raymond A. HELGEMOE, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison, et al., Respondents, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 31, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. Heed, Concord, N. H., with whom David H. Souter, Atty. Gen., Concord, N. H., was on brief, for appellants.

Eleanor Krasnow, Manchester, N. H., by appointment of the court, for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, TUTTLE, Circuit Judge and WOLLENBERG, District Judge.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellee, Thomas E. Meloon, was indicted and convicted under New Hampshire RSA 632:1 subd. I(c) in 1974 for the crime of "statutory rape". Meloon unsuccessfully appealed his conviction to the New Hampshire Supreme Court arguing among other issues that the New Hampshire statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment.1 State v. Meloon, 116 N.H. 669, 366 A.2d 1176 (1976). In 1977 appellee...

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