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SULLIVAN v. BLACKBURN

No. 86-3175 Summary Calendar.

804 F.2d 885 (1986)

Lue Elbert SULLIVAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Frank BLACKBURN, Warden Louisiana State Penitentiary, and William J. Guste, Jr., Attorney General, State of Louisiana, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lue Elbert Sullivan, pro se.

Elizabeth M. Gaudin, Asst. Dist. Atty., Research & Appeals, Dorothy A. Pendergast, Gretna, La., for respondents-appellees.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GARWOOD, and HILL, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Chief Judge:

Lue Elbert Sullivan appeals the district court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. We affirm the district court's judgment.

I.

In 1973, a Louisiana jury convicted Sullivan of second degree murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed his conviction without opinion. In 1979 Sullivan's first federal petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the United States district...

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