ROBARDS v. REES

No. 85-5529.

789 F.2d 379 (1986)

Joseph Frederick ROBARDS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. John REES, Superintendent, Kentucky State Reformatory and David L. Armstrong, Attorney General, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney McDaniel (argued), Asst. Public Advocate, Dept. of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, Ky., for petitioner-appellant.

Carl T. Miller, Jr. (argued), Asst. Atty. Gen., Frankfort, Ky., for respondents-appellees.

Before ENGEL and KENNEDY, Circuit Judges and COOK, District Judge.


JULIAN ABELE COOK, Jr., District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court which denied the petition for writ of habeas corpus of the Petitioner-Appellant, Joseph Frederick Robards (Robards), under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons stated below, this Court affirms the order of the District Court.

I.

Robards was indicted by a state grand jury on several counts which included robbery, possession of a handgun, and being a persistent...

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