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HUDSON v. DEYTON

No. 84-8368.

770 F.2d 1558 (1985)

Walter Kenneth HUDSON, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Robert DEYTON, Sheriff, Clayton County, Department of Offender Rehabilitation, Department of Pardons and Paroles, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Beth Westmoreland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondents-appellants.

William R.L. Latson, Jonesboro, Ga., for petitioner-appellee.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and WRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

The State of Georgia appeals the grant of Walter Kenneth Hudson's habeas corpus petition. The court below found that an increase in the amount Hudson was obligated to pay as support for his minor child1 constituted a prohibited ex post facto2 application of Georgia law governing abandonment of minor children. Based upon the Supreme Court of Georgia's interpretation of Georgia...

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