WASHINGTON v. WATKINS

No. 80-3072.

662 F.2d 1116 (1981)

John Lewis WASHINGTON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John C. WATKINS, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A.

December 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Brantley, Jr., Patrick Dale O'Rourke, Jackson, Miss., for petitioner-appellant.

Grady F. Tollison, Jr., Oxford, Miss., Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford Univ. Law School, Stanford, Cal., James S. Liebman, Joel Berger, John C. Boger, Judith Reed, Deborah Fins, New York City, Billy Gore, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellees.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


ON PETITION FOR REHEARING AND SUGGESTION FOR REHEARING EN BANC

(Opinion September 14, 1981, 5 Cir. 1981, 655 F.2d 1346).

PER CURIAM:

The Petition for Rehearing is DENIED and the judges in regular active service of this Administrative Unit having been polled at the request of one of said judges and a majority of said judges not having voted in favor of it (Rule 35, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure; Local Fifth...

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