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TYLER v. ARMONTROUT

No. 88-1896C(2).

696 F.Supp. 1275 (1988)

Melvin Leroy TYLER and Kent Scott, Assigned Law Clerks Missouri State Penitentiary for Death Row Prisoners, on behalf of Gerald Smith and any and all other Death Row Prisoners, Petitioners, v. Bill ARMONTROUT, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, and John Ashcroft, Governor of Missouri, Respondents.

United States District Court, E.D. Missouri, E.D.

September 30, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Leroy Tyler, Kent Scott, Jefferson, Mo., for petitioners.

Stephen D. Hawke, Asst. Atty. Gen., Bill Thompson, Staff Counsel, Office of the Clerk, Jefferson, Mo., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM

FILIPPINE, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the petition for habeas corpus relief, filed by Melvin Leroy Tyler and Kent Scott on behalf of Gerald Smith and "any and all other deathrow [sic] prisoners." Tyler and Scott allege in the petition that they have standing to maintain this action as assigned law clerks at the Missouri State Penitentiary. While petitioners attempt to create a class action by this petition, in actuality...

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