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STOKES v. ANDERSON

No. 96-60549 Summary Calendar.

123 F.3d 858 (1997)

Phillip STOKES, Petitioner-Appellant, v. James V. ANDERSON, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 6, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip Stokes, Parchman, MS, pro se.

Jo Anne McFarland McLeod, Jackson, MS, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before DAVIS, EMILIO M. GARZA and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

A Mississippi state jury convicted Phillip Stokes of murder during the commission of a robbery; the court then sentenced him to life imprisonment. Stokes appealed, and the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed his conviction. Stokes v. State, 548 So.2d 118 (Miss. 1989), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1029, 110 S.Ct. 742, 107 L.Ed.2d 759 (1990).

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