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HUNT v. WOODSON

No. 85-6682.

800 F.2d 416 (1986)

William Douglas HUNT, Appellee, v. M.L. WOODSON, Sheriff, Pittsylvania County, Virginia and Attorney General of the State of Virginia, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Q. Harris, Asst. Atty. Gen. (William G. Broaddus, Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellants.

Louis P. McFadden, Jr. (Meade, Tate & Daniel, P.C., Danville, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL and PHILLIPS, Circuit Judges, and GORDON, Senior United States District Judge for the Middle District of North Carolina, sitting by designation.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

The Sheriff of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, M.L. Woodson, and the Attorney General of the State of Virginia, William G. Broaddus, appeal from the grant of a writ of habeas corpus requiring the release of William Douglas Hunt from their custody. The State of Virginia tried Hunt before a jury for burglary, rape and aggravated sexual battery on July 22, 1982. The jury found Hunt guilty of rape, and the trial judge sentenced him to fifteen...

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