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JOHNSTON v. PITTMAN

No. 83-4391 Summary Calendar.

731 F.2d 1231 (1984)

Chester Jordan JOHNSTON, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant, v. Edwin Lloyd PITTMAN, Attorney General, State of Mississippi, and Morris L. Thigpen, Superintendent, Mississippi Department of Corrections, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 14, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Waide, West Point, Miss., Jacqueline C. Estes, Tupelo, Miss., for petitioner-appellant.

William S. Boyd, III, Jackson, Miss., for respondents-appellees.

Before RUBIN, JOLLY and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The petitioner, Chester Jordan Johnston, Jr., seeks habeas corpus relief from his conviction and forty-five-year prison sentence for committing a rape in 1978 in Jackson, Mississippi. He alleges that the state denied his due process rights when the police department did not make certain evidence available to him before it spoiled, and when the trial court refused to allow him to cross-examine the investigating police officer regarding a past relationship...

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