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McDONNELL v. ESTELLE

No. 80-1728.

666 F.2d 246 (1982)

Robert O. McDONNELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Clark, Stair & Clark, Houston, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Gilbert J. Pena, Douglas M. Becker, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GOLDBERG and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

On December 5, 1947, Robert O. McDonnell pleaded guilty to five counts of robbery by assault and was sentenced to fifty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. He was released on parole in 1964. His parole was revoked in 1971 after his conviction in an unrelated case. At present, McDonnell is incarcerated in the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Texas has issued a detainer...

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