Legal Opinion
Willie James Nelson v. Edward Hargett, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 4, 1993No. 92-7132PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:'
Petitioner Willie J. Nelson is currently in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. He received a thirty year prison sentence in November 1988 after pleading guilty to the charge of selling cocaine. After Nelson’s application for post-conviction relief was denied by the Lowndes County Circuit Court and Mississippi Supreme Court, see Nelson v. State, 576 So.2d 1270 (Miss.1991), he filed this § 2254 petition in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi on July 1, 1991, contending that: (1) the indictment returned by…
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3Cited by77 opinions
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