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BANKS v. HORN

No. 4:CV-99-0438.

63 F.Supp.2d 525 (1999)

George E. BANKS, Petitioner, v. Martin HORN, Commissioner, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; James E. Price, Superintendent of State Correctional Institution at Greene; and Raymond Colleran, Superintendent of State Correctional Institute at Waymart; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

United States District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania.

August 18, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Al Flora, Jr., Wilkes-Barre, PA, William Ruzzo, Kingston, PA, for petitioner.

Peter Paul Olszewski, Jr., District Attorney's Office, Luzerne County Courthouse, Wilkes-Barre, PA, for respondents.

MEMORANDUM

McCLURE, District Judge.

BACKGROUND:

On March 22, 1999, petitioner George E. Banks, an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Waymart, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, commenced this action with the filing of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. According to the petition, Banks was convicted in 1983 of twelve counts of first-degree murder, one count of third-degree murder, one count...

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