ABBOTT v. CUNNINGHAM

Civ. No. 90-474-D.

766 F.Supp. 1218 (1991)

George ABBOTT v. Michael CUNNINGHAM, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

June 13, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Twomey, Chichester, N.H., for plaintiff.

Mark E. Howard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Concord, N.H., for defendant.


ORDER

DEVINE, Chief Judge.

George Abbott, an inmate at the New Hampshire State Prison, brings this habeas corpus petition alleging that his constitutional rights were violated by the insanity defense jury instruction given at his murder trial. Authority to review the instant petition is founded on 28 U.S.C. §§ 2241(a) and 2254.

On October 23, 1990, the court found that Abbott had set forth a cause of action and had exhausted his remedies...

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