HANEY v. ROSE

No. 80-1078.

642 F.2d 1055 (1981)

John W. HANEY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James H. ROSE, Warden and The Attorney General of The State of Tennessee, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Haney, pro se, Bill G. Wilder, Florence, Ky., for petitioner-appellant.

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Tennessee, William W. Hunt, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., for respondent-appellee.

Before BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., and JONES, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This case is before us on the appeal of John W. Haney from an order of the District Court denying his petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Haney's sole contention on appeal is that he was deprived of his Fourteenth Amendment right to trial by an impartial jury.

Petitioner was convicted in a Tennessee state court of second degree murder and received a sentence of life imprisonment. The pertinent...

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