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MATTHESON v. MAGGIO

No. 83-3521.

714 F.2d 362 (1983)

Howard MATTHESON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Ross MAGGIO, Jr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General of Louisiana, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight Doskey, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

John Craft, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants-appellees.

Before REAVLEY, RANDALL and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner Howard Mattheson was convicted of first degree murder in a Louisiana state court in 1978 and sentenced to die. His conviction and sentence were affirmed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in 1981. State v. Mattheson, 407 So.2d 1150 (La. 1981). His application for a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court was denied on July 6, 1983. On August 12, 1983, petitioner filed an application for...

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