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BLANTON v. BLACKBURN

Civ. A. No. 78-467-B.

494 F.Supp. 895 (1980)

Robert H. BLANTON, III v. Frank BLACKBURN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

United States District Court, M. D. Louisiana.

July 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis O. Unglesby, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff, Robert H. Blanton, III.

Aubert Talbot, Dist. Atty., Ascension Parish, Twenty-Third Judicial Dist., Napoleonville, La., Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Atty., Gretna, La., for defendant, State of La.

POLOZOLA, District Judge:

Imprisoned for life for murder, Robert H. Blanton, III has filed this application for a writ of habeas corpus. The Court finds the writ should issue because the prosecutor failed to fully disclose to the trial jury agreements made with key prosecution witnesses. Giglio v. United States, 405 U.S. 150, 92 S.Ct. 763, 31 L.Ed.2d 104 (1972); Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83

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