Legal Opinion
James Gregory Jones v. Superintendent of Rahway State Prison and the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided January 6, 1984No. 83-5277PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GIBBONS, Circuit Judge:
James Gregory Jones appeals from an order denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(b) (1976). Jones v. Superintendent, 576 F.Supp. 4 (D.N.J.1982). Jones is incarcerated by the State of New Jersey under a life sentence imposed following his conviction of murder in connection with a bank robbery. The district judge, relying on his own opinion in United States ex rel. Herring v. Fenton, 531 F.Supp. 937 (D.N.J.1981) dismissed the petition for failure to exhaust available state remedies. We expressly disapprove of that…
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