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THOMPSON v. SCURR

No. 81-1541.

668 F.2d 999 (1982)

Earl Edward THOMPSON, Appellant, v. David SCURR, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 25, 1982.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing March 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara A. Schwartz, Ronald J. Allen (argued), Helen Lucier, Mary Schlicher, Student Legal Interns, Iowa City, Iowa, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen. of Iowa, Thomas D. McGrane (argued), Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellee.

Before HENLEY and ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and HARRIS, Senior District Judge.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc March 2, 1982.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Earl Edward Thompson was convicted of first-degree murder in 1961 after a plea of guilty in the District Court of Dallas County, Iowa. There was no appeal. In 1965 Thompson filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the Iowa state courts. This petition and four subsequent state-court petitions filed between 1965 and 1976 were denied. Thompson then filed a petition...

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