JONES v. WAINWRIGHT

No. 79-1656.

608 F.2d 180 (1979)

Jimmie Lee JONES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Department of Offender Rehabilitation, State of Florida, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 12, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris W. Milton, St. Petersburg, Fla., for petitioner-appellant.

Michael Kotler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, Fla., for respondent-appellee.

Before AINSWORTH, VANCE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the question of whether a petition for habeas corpus must be dismissed for failure to exhaust state remedies when the petitioner does not urge unexhausted grounds for relief but the state claims that such grounds may be asserted in the future. The district court concurred in the magistrate's determination that since petitioner might, sometime in the future, assert unexhausted claims not included in the instant petition...

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