GRAY v. KING

No. 82-4544.

724 F.2d 1199 (1984)

Dewey Spencer GRAY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John T. KING, Secretary of Department of Corrections, State of Louisiana, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 13, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Woodman (court-appointed), Shreveport, La., for petitioner-appellant.

William R. Coenen, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Fifth Judicial Dist. Court, Parish of Richland, Rayville, La., Ivan L.R. Lemelle, Asst. Atty. Gen., New Orleans, La., for respondents-appellees.

Before RUBIN, GARWOOD and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

The appellant, Dewey Spencer Gray, seeks habeas corpus relief to invalidate his Louisiana state court conviction for attempted first degree murder and the sentence under that conviction to thirty years of hard labor. His claim for relief is that the State of Louisiana violated his constitutional right to a speedy trial because of the delay between his arrest and trial. After reviewing the record, the federal district court accepted the magistrate...

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