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NIXON v. NEWSOME

No. 88-8244.

888 F.2d 112 (1989)

James Arthur NIXON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Lanson NEWSOME, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

As Amended December 12, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Samuel, Atlanta, Ga., for petitioner-appellant.

Mary Beth Westmoreland, State Law Dept., Paula K. Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for respondent-appellee.

Before KRAVITCH, JOHNSON and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This case arises on appeal from the denial of a petition for habeas corpus relief brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 by a Georgia state prison inmate, James A. Nixon. Nixon was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. The district court denied Nixon's petition. We reverse.

I. BACKGROUND

Early in the morning of October 30, 1979, James A. Nixon drove up to Tom and Kathy Billings' trailer in Jonesboro, Georgia...

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