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METHENY v. HAMBY

No. 86-5974.

835 F.2d 672 (1987)

Douglas Vincent METHENY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. M.C. HAMBY, Warden; and William M. Leech, Attorney General of the State of Tennessee, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 22, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. (argued), Nashville, Tenn., for petitioner-appellant.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., Wayne E. Uhl (argued), for respondents-appellees.

Before JONES and NORRIS, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Douglas Metheny, while in state custody as the result of felony convictions, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Metheny claimed that he was entitled to a writ since the state of Tennessee had violated the trial-before-return provision of Article IV(e) of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers ("IAD") by returning him to federal custody...

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