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SINCLAIR v. STATE OF LA.

No. 82-3077. Summary Calendar.

679 F.2d 513 (1982)

Billy Wayne SINCLAIR, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF LOUISIANA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billy Wayne Sinclair, pro se.

Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for respondent-appellee.

Before BROWN, POLITZ and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

In this federal habeas petition, Louisiana prison inmate Billy Wayne Sinclair asserts that his guilty plea to a robbery charge was not voluntarily and knowingly made in that no one informed him that a pending murder conviction might be imposed consecutively. The District Court dismissed the petition, finding it successive and an abuse of the writ under 28 U.S.C. § 2244 and Rule 9(b) governing actions under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Sinclair has indeed...

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