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BECK v. NORRIS

No. 85-6043.

801 F.2d 242 (1986)

Leroy Alexander BECK, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Stephen NORRIS, Commissioner of Corrections, State of Tennessee; and Odie Jones, Warden of the Morgan County Regional Facility at Wartburg, Morgan County, Tennessee, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Ortwein (argued), Ortwein, Roddy and Associates, Chattanooga, Tenn., for petitioner-appellant.

James Thompson (argued), W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. of Tenn., Nashville, Tenn., for respondents-appellees.

Before MARTIN and GUY, Circuit Judges; and SUHRHEINRICH, District Judge.

RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Leroy Beck, appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Beck raises two issues: that he was deprived of his rights under the due process clause and the sixth amendment when the state court allowed testimony by witnesses who had undergone hypnosis, and that he was deprived of a fair trial by a jury instruction which unconstitutionally shifted the burden of proof to petitioner on the...

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