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SHORT v. GARRISON

No. 81-7011.

678 F.2d 364 (1982)

Richard L. SHORT, Appellant, v. Samuel P. GARRISON; Attorney General of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George K. Walker, Wake Forest University School of Law, Williamsburg, Va., Robin Cutson and Don Fox, Third Year Law Students, for appellant.

Richard N. League, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, N. C. (Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C., on brief), for appellees.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Richard L. Short seeks review from the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court adopted a Magistrate's Findings and Recommendation and ordered the petition dismissed.

On February 26, 1968 Short was indicted by a Forsyth County, North Carolina Superior Court grand jury for murder. On June 23, 1968, Short pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree murder in Superior Court and received a term of twenty-five...

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