CROWELL v. ZAHRADNICK

No. 77-1186.

571 F.2d 1257 (1977)

Anthony CROWELL, Appellant, v. Robert F. ZAHRADNICK, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 20, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karen Zokoff, Third Year Law Student (Michael E. Geltner, Appellate Litigation Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D. C., and Patricia H. Char, Third Year Law Student, on brief), for appellant.

Linwood T. Wells, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Anthony Troy, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, RUSSELL, and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

Anthony Crowell appeals from the denial of his petition for habeas corpus, wherein he raised two claims: that he was arrested without probable cause to believe that he had committed an offense, and that there was insufficient evidence to support the conviction. The district court found, with respect to the claim of lack of probable cause, that Crowell had not yet exhausted his state remedies. However, the court proceeded to find there existed...

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