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JOHNSON v. RIDDLE

No. 76-2035.

562 F.2d 312 (1977)

John Calvin JOHNSON, Appellant, v. Walter M. RIDDLE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall M. Chastain, Columbia, S.C. (G. Anthony Campbell, U.S.C. Law Center, Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellant.

Jim L. Chin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va. (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and CRAVEN and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.

WIDENER, Circuit Judge:

In this federal habeas corpus proceeding, petitioner John Calvin Johnson challenges the validity of a 1957 armed robbery conviction upon which a current three-year recidivist sentence is partially based.1 The district court denied relief, and we affirm.

Johnson directs four assignments of error at his 1957 conviction: (1) The systematic exclusion of black people from the grand jury that indicted him; (2...

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