William Edward Sodders v. Robert Parratt and Paul Douglas

William E. Sodders is currently serving fifteen to thirty years in the Nebraska State Penitentiary for attempted murder. He appeals the district court’s 1 denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Sodders argues (1) the information charging him with attempted murder was jurisdictionally defective, and (2) the Nebraska attempt statute under which he was charged is unconstitutionally vague. We affirm.

Sodders pled guilty to attempted murder on May 2, 1980. At his arraignment Sod-ders admitted that he had attempted to hire a man to kill his wife. He had met…