Billy Wayne Sinclair v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Per curiam
Billy Wayne Sinclair, a Louisiana prisoner, appeals from the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus brought pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254. Appellant is currently serving a 25-year sentence imposed on November 4, 1966, for armed robbery and a life sentence imposed on March 2, 1967, for a murder committed during the armed robbery. In his petition appellant seeks to attack and have expunged from the record a prior unrelated conviction which, he claims, has present adverse collateral consequences on the sentences he is now serving. 1 We affirm the district court’s…
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