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JOHNSON v. CABANA

Civ. A. No. J87-0277(B).

661 F.Supp. 356 (1987)

Edward Earl JOHNSON v. Donald CABANA, Acting Commissioner of the Department of Corrections.

United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

May 19, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. McDuff, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, Washington, D.C., Clive A. Stafford Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner.

Marvin White, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for Cabana.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BARBOUR, District Judge.

Edward Earl Johnson was convicted by a Leake County jury in 1980 for the capital murder of Town Marshal J.T. Trest, and at a subsequent sentencing hearing the jury imposed a sentence of death.1 Johnson has exhausted previous appeals and habeas petitions and the sentence of execution is to be carried out on May 20, 1987, at 12:01 a.m.

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