THOMAS v. LEEKE

No. 83-6255.

725 F.2d 246 (1984)

Sarah THOMAS, Appellant, v. William D. LEEKE, Commissioner; The Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 12, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 5, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vance L. Cowden, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, S.C., for appellant.

Donald J. Zelenka, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C. (T. Travis Medlock, Atty. Gen., Columbia, S.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before HALL and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied April 5, 1984.

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Sarah Thomas, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in a prosecution in the courts of South Carolina, appeals from the order of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, 547 F.Supp. 612, denying her a writ of habeas corpus. She asserts the constitutional invalidity of her conviction...

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