Legal Opinion
McCray v. Burrell
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1975No. Nos. 74-1042, 74-1043, 74-1456, 74-1634PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
These appeals present the common question of whether a prisoner, incarcerated under state process, is required to exhaust available state remedies before the district court may or should exercise jurisdiction in a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the redress of alleged deprivations of civil rights arising out of his incarceration. Some of these ' appeals were heard but not decided by a panel of the court. Because each presents the same question of exceptional importance, *360we Consolidated them and heard them in banc.
In No. 74-1042 and No. 74-1043, plaintiff McCray, an…
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