Legal Opinion
Thomas E. Meloon v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 31, 1977No. 77-1197PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Chief Judge.
Appellee, Thomas E. Meloon, was indicted and convicted under New Hampshire RSA 632:1 subd. 1(c) in 1974 for the crime of “statutory rape”. Meloon unsuccessfully appealed his conviction to the New Hampshire Supreme Court arguing among other issues that the New Hampshire statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment. 1 State v. Meloon, 116 N.H. 669, 366 A.2d 1176 (1976). In 1977 appellee filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. The district court at first denied appellee’s petition, but later…
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