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HUTCHINGS v. ESTELLE

No. 77-1630.

564 F.2d 713 (1977)

John Allen HUTCHINGS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 12, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald A. Smyth, Staff Counsel for Inmates, Texas Dept. of Corrections, Ramsey Unit, Richard A. Dawson, Rosharon, Tex., for petitioner-appellant.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen., Robert E. DeLong, Jr., David M. Kendall, First Asst. Attys. Gen., Joe B. Dibrell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Enforcement Div., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, COLEMAN and RONEY, Circuit Judges.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

This habeas corpus appellant, a Texas state prisoner convicted of felony theft, claims the collateral estoppel protection of the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy, Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436 (1970);1 Harris v. Washington, 404 U.S. 55 (1971);2 Turner v. Arkansas, 407...

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