SELF v. BLACKBURN

No. 84-3273. Summary Calendar.

751 F.2d 789 (1985)

Billy Ray SELF, 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.

January 31, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billy Ray Self, pro se.

Kay Kirkpatrick, Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for respondents-appellees.

Before GEE, RUBIN and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A Louisiana state prisoner, who was sentenced to life imprisonment and has been imprisoned for twelve years on his plea of guilty to a charge of murder, seeks habeas corpus on the grounds that the state court before which he pleaded lacked jurisdiction and that his continued ineligibility for parole after ten and one-half years of imprisonment violates the terms of a plea bargain. He seeks the appointment of counsel to present his appeal...

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