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JORDAN v. WATKINS

No. 81-4172.

681 F.2d 1067 (1982)

Richard Gerald JORDAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John C. WATKINS, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied October 7, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, James T. Kilbreth, III, Washington, D. C., Joseph P. Hudson, Gulfport, Miss., Timothy N. Black, Washington, D. C., Judith A. Reed, New York City, Levi & Denham, Earl L. Denham, Ocean Springs, Miss., for petitioner-appellant.

William S. Boyd, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellees.

Before BROWN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied October 7, 1982. See 688 F.2d 395.

DUPLANTIER, District Judge:

On January 12, 1976, Richard Gerald Jordan kidnapped the wife of an officer of a Gulfport, Mississippi, bank, took her to a nearby wooded area, and killed her by shooting her in the head. Jordan was arrested at a roadblock the next day after he had been observed picking up the $25,000 ransom he had demanded.

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