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BONVILLAIN v. BLACKBURN

No. 85-3352 Summary Calendar.

780 F.2d 1248 (1986)

Jesse BONVILLAIN, 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.

January 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M.T. Mulvehill, Virginia Laughlin Schlueter, Asst. Fed. Public Defenders, New Orleans, La., for petitioner-appellant.

John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., Research & Appeals, William C. Credo, III, Dorothy A. Pendergast, Elizabeth Gaudin, Asst. Dist. Attys., Gretna, La., for respondents-appellees.

Before POLITZ, GARWOOD, and JOLLY, Circuit Judges.

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

Jesse Bonvillain appeals the denial of his habeas corpus petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, challenging his Louisiana conviction and sentence for forcible rape. Petitioner, who had been charged with the more serious offense of aggravated rape, pleaded guilty to forcible rape pursuant to a plea bargain, and was sentenced to seventeen years' confinement. At that time he was on parole after serving five years of an earlier Louisiana rape conviction...

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