Legal Opinion
Dotson v. Mountain Mission School, Inc.
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided June 21, 1984No. Civ. A. 79-0125-BPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
GLEN M. WILLIAMS, District Judge.
On January 26, 1974, James M. Swiney appeared before Carl Boyd, a justice of the peace of Buchanan County, Virginia, and under oath, accused the plaintiff Bloch of abducting Robert Watts, an infant of the age of thirteen years, from The Mountain Mission School, Grundy, Virginia. On May 29, 1975, Bloch was indicted by a grand jury and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of abduction. Bloch subsequently filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in this court: Because of the petitioner’s failure to exhaust state remedies, the court…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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