Legal Opinion
Patterson v. Slayton
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided September 13, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 71-C-69-RPublished
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, District Judge.
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, Robert Early Patterson petitions this court for a writ of habeas corpus to terminate his confinement in the Virginia State Penitentiary. By order dated June 4, 1971 this court granted a transfer of the petition from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to be filed herein. Leave to proceed in forma pauperis has been granted.
Petitioner is currently serving a twenty-year sentence upon a judgment of the Circuit Court of Franklin County, imposed on February 19,'1969 for second degree murder.…
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