Robert Haden King, Jr. v. Neil Brown, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center

KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

King was convicted in Oregon state court of “aggravated murder” and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum of thirty years to serve. The main issue on appeal is whether the State of Oregon was bound to a ten year minimum on a plea to ordinary murder because of a plea bargain it made with King. King also claims that his prosecution violated the Interstate Agreement on Detainers because the State of Oregon secured his release from the State of Washington with an invalid indictment. The district court dismissed King’s petition for habeas corpus relief. We affirm.

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