CLARK v. LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY

Civ. A. No. 81-262-A.

520 F.Supp. 1046 (1981)

Colin CLARK v. LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY, et al.

United States District Court, M. D. Louisiana.

August 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Shapiro, New Orleans, La., for petitioner.

Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for respondents.


JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is a petition for habeas corpus relief brought under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner attacks his state conviction of murder and sentence to death upon federal constitutional grounds. Essentially, petitioner's claims are: (1) that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment by reason of a jury instruction on criminal conspiracy which relieved the state of proving specific intent to...

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