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HARKER v. STATE OF MD.

No. 85-6052.

800 F.2d 437 (1986)

David Watkins HARKER, Appellant, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Appellate Litigation Clinical Program, Georgetown University Law Center, and Paul Cacciatore, Student Counsel (Martha J. Tomich, Appellate Law Fellow; Michelle Rice, Student Counsel on brief) for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General on brief) for appellee.

Before MURNAGHAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:

Mervyn Thompson was shot by a man who had identified himself as "Mr. Palmer." Thompson described his assailant to the police, and some weeks later was hypnotized in the hope that he would recall more details of the shooting. At a show-up a few days after the hypnosis session, Thompson identified his assailant as a man named David Harker. Harker was convicted of assault with intent to murder by a Maryland jury, and later filed a petition for...

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