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WATKINS v. CALLAHAN

No. 83-1380.

724 F.2d 1038 (1984)

Larry WATKINS, Petitioner, Appellant, v. William F. CALLAHAN, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 13, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Osler, Boston, Mass., for petitioner, appellant.

Barbara A.H. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Crim. Appellate Division, Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for respondent, appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, GIBSON and TIMBERS, Senior Circuit Judges.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Larry Watkins, a Massachusetts state prisoner who is serving a mandatory term of life imprisonment following his conviction by a jury on November 22, 1976 of first degree murder, armed robbery and kidnapping, appeals from a judgment entered May 3, 1983 in the District of Massachusetts dismissing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976). We affirm.

I.

On November 17, 1975, in Boston...

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