WEBB v. BLACKBURN

No. 85-3021 Summary Calendar.

773 F.2d 646 (1985)

Floyd WEBB, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Frank BLACKBURN, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 15, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Webb, pro se.

Tom W. Thornhill, Asst. Dist. Atty., Slidell, La., for respondents-appellees.

Before POLITZ, GARWOOD and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.


GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, Floyd Webb, appeals pro se the denial of his habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, seeking to invalidate his Louisiana conviction, and life imprisonment sentence, for the first degree murder of Randy Sebble. Appellant claims error was committed when the prosecution improperly commented on his post-arrest silence in violation of Doyle v. Ohio, 426 U.S. 610, 96 S.Ct. 2240...

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