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DOBARD v. JOHNSON

No. 84-7281.

749 F.2d 1503 (1985)

Percy Leo DOBARD, Petitioner-Appellant, v. W.E. JOHNSON, Warden, Holman Correctional Institution, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph I. Knowles, Jr., Tuscaloosa, Ala., Barry Friedman, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-appellant.

Edward Carnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for respondent-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, CLARK, Circuit Judge, and THOMAS, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 11, 1985.

GODBOLD, Chief Judge:

Under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (1982) a state prisoner may file a petition for habeas corpus in the federal judicial district in which he is in custody or in the district in which the court was held that convicted and sentenced him.1 The provision permitting filing in the district of conviction and sentence was...

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