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LONGVAL v. MEACHUM

No. 80-1503.

651 F.2d 818 (1981)

Norman L. LONGVAL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lawrence R. MEACHUM et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corey M. Belobrow, Boston University Law Student, with whom John Leubsdorf, Associate Professor of Law, Boston, Mass., Court appointed counsel, Jeffrey Lesser, Christine Schwab, and James R. Wacht, Boston University Law Students, on brief, for petitioner-appellant.

Annette C. Benedetto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen. and Barbara A. H. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Appellate Div., Boston, Mass., on brief, for respondents-appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Norman Longval appeals from a judgment of dismissal entered by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts denying his petition for habeas corpus. The petition challenged Longval's original forty to fifty-year prison sentence as an unconstitutional punishment for his exercise of the right to trial. We reverse and remand for resentencing de novo.

Longval was indicted...

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