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BUTTRUM v. BLACK

Civ. A. No. 4:87-cv-258-HLM.

721 F.Supp. 1268 (1989)

Janice BUTTRUM, Petitioner, v. Gary BLACK, Warden, Middle Georgia Correctional Institute, Women's Division, Respondent.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Rome Division.

September 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce S. Harvey, Office of Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, Ga., George Haywood Kendall, III, Office of George H. Kendall, New York City, for petitioner.

Susan Virginia Boleyn, Office of State Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondent.

ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

Petitioner Janice Buttrum, a Georgia inmate sentenced to death for murder, presents this petition for habeas corpus relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. She attacks both her conviction for murder and her death sentence imposed by a jury in 1981. For the reasons set forth below, habeas corpus relief from her conviction for murder shall be DENIED, and relief from her sentence of death shall be GRANTED.

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