Lackey v. Rose

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEESE, District Judge.

This is a pro se application by Mr. Terry Lee Lackey for the federal writ of habeas corpus. He claims he is in the custody of the respondent-warden pursuant to the judgments of October 19-21, 1977 of the Circuit Court of Cocke County, Tennessee in violation of the Constitution, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, Due Process Clause. 28 U.S.C. § 2254(a). The grounds of his claim are (1) that he was deprived of his right to a fair trial by prejudicial pretrial publicity (and the concomitant refusal of the trial judge to grant a change of venue); (2) that…