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RANDOLPH v. PARKER

Nos. 77-1463 to 77-1465.

575 F.2d 1178 (1978)

James RANDOLPH, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harry PARKER, Chief, Respondent-Appellant. Wilburn PICKENS, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harry PARKER, Chief, Respondent-Appellant. Isaiah HAMILTON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Harry PARKER, Chief, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided May 19, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brooks McLemore, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Tenn., Michael E. Terry, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for respondent-appellant.

Walter L. Evans, Memphis, Tenn. (court-appointed), for petitioners-appellees in Nos. 77-1463 and 77-1464.

Alan Bryant Chambers, Memphis, Tenn., for petitioner-appellee in No. 77-1465.

Before EDWARDS, PECK and KEITH, Circuit Judges.

EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves a sequence of events which have the flavor of the old West before the law ever crossed the Pecos. The difference is that here there are no heroes and here there was a trial.

In July of 1970 a Las Vegas gambler named William Douglas came to Memphis with dob1 and gun and an assumed name. Using the services of a runner with the improbable name of Woppy Gaddy, who had been promised a cut...

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