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WATSON v. STATE OF ALA.

No. 86-7618.

841 F.2d 1074 (1988)

Floyd Leon WATSON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Leon Watson, pro se.

Stuart Edwin Smith, Bell, Richardson, Herrington, Wilmer, Sparkman & Shepard, Huntsville, Ala., for petitioner-appellant.

Glenn L. Davidson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Fred F. Bell, Montgomery, Ala., for respondent-appellee.

Before FAY and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and ATKINS, Senior District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Floyd Watson, a prisoner convicted by an Alabama court of first degree burglary1 and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole as a habitual felon, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied the petition, and we affirm.

Watson raises three issues before this court, only one of which merits full discussion. According to Watson, the Alabama trial judge violated his constitutional rights by coercing...

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