Thomas James Wright v. Louis L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Offender Rehabilitation

Appellant, a state prisoner whose conviction for rape in the year 1968 was affirmed, Wright v. State, 223 So.2d 112 (Fla.App. 1969), seeks federal habeas corpus relief. He alleges that his conviction was the result of an illegal search and seizure, the use of perjured testimony by the prosecution, and that blacks were systematically excluded from the grand jury that indicted him and the petit jury that convicted him. The district court dismissed the appellant’s petition and we affirm. 1

With regard to appellant’s contention that blacks were systematically excluded from Florida juries at the…