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WASHINGTON v. WATKINS

No. 80-3072.

655 F.2d 1346 (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

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied December 3, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Dale O'Rourke, Jackson, Miss., 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, for petitioner-appellant.

Billy Gore, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellees.

Before WISDOM, COLEMAN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 3, 1981. See 662 F.2d 1116.

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

On May 25, 1977, a jury in the Circuit Court of Lowndes County, Mississippi, convicted Petitioner-Appellant Johnny Washington of capital murder for the March 26, 1977, shooting of Karl Woods during the armed robbery of a convenience store in Columbus, Mississippi. After finding Washington...

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