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SAWYER v. BUTLER

No. 87-3274.

881 F.2d 1273 (1989)

Robert SAWYER, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Robert H. BUTLER, Sr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 15, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine Hancock, Elizabeth W. Cole, New Orleans, La., for petitioner-appellant.

Dorothy Pendergast, Asst. Dist. Atty., John J. Molaison, Jr., Gretna, La., for respondent-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, GEE, REAVLEY, POLITZ, KING, JOHNSON, WILLIAMS, GARWOOD, JOLLY, HIGGINBOTHAM, DAVIS, JONES, SMITH and DUHE, Circuit Judges.

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

Robert Sawyer was sentenced to death by a Louisiana jury on September 19, 1980 for the brutal slaying of Frances Arwood. Today we decide his appeal from the denial by a United States District Court of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. We have elsewhere recorded the long history of Sawyer's efforts to overturn his conviction.2 Sawyer's attack has now boiled

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