UNITED STATES EX REL. TYLER v. STATE OF MO.

No. 77-958C(4).

437 F.Supp. 111 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Melvin Leroy TYLER, Petitioner, v. STATE OF MISSOURI, Respondent.

United States District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

September 19, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Leroy Tyler pro se.

John D. Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Otto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief Counsel Jefferson City, for respondent.


MEMORANDUM

FILIPPINE, District Judge.

Petitioner, Melvin Leroy Tyler, a prisoner of the State of Missouri, commenced this action in forma pauperis to vacate a sentence imposed in the Circuit Court of Platte County, Missouri. The action is based upon 28 U.S.C. § 2254.

Petitioner alleges that the appointment of the trial judge in his case violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Petitioner sought to challenge...

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