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FRANCIS v. STATE OF MD.

No. 78-6566.

605 F.2d 747 (1979)

Alan Keith FRANCIS, Appellant, v. STATE OF MARYLAND and Dr. Harold M. Boslow, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Johnston, Baltimore, Md. for appellant.

Donald R. Stutman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellees.

Before HALL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, sitting by designation.

K. K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Alan Keith Francis, a Maryland prisoner, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the statutory scheme under which he was convicted violates his fourteenth amendment right of equal protection of the laws. We disagree and affirm.

In 1974, when he was under the age of eighteen, appellant was charged in Baltimore City in adult criminal court with armed

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