McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court dismissing a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The chronology out of which the present controversy arose is a bit convoluted, but a recital thereof is necessary to an understanding of our resolution of the appeal.
Melvin Sledd, the petitioner in federal district court, was charged with murder in the district court for Shawnee...
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