Legal Opinion
Jimmy Seth Perry v. Dr. Stanley Blackledge, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina, and State of North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided December 27, 1971No. 71-2198PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Senior Circuit Judge:
Petitioner here seeks review of the District Court’s dismissal of his habeas corpus petition, brought under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, for failure to exhaust state remedies.
In 1969, Perry was brought to trial in the District Court for Northampton County on a misdemeanor charge — assaulting a fellow inmate at the Odem Farm Unit of the North Carolina Department of Corrections. Upon being convicted, petitioner was sentenced to six months, sentence to run consecutively to the sentence he was then serving.
Due to the consecutive nature of the sentence imposed, petitioner…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- State v. SparrowSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1970
- Eddie W. Patton v. State of North CarolinaCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- State v. SpencerSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1970
- Willis Lansing Ganger v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellant(two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1967
- William Ralph v. Warden, Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1971
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Blackledge v. PerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Cornelius E. Sarzen v. Charles W. GaughanCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1973
- Adkins v. BordenkircherCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1982
- United States v. John C. Brizendine, Charles M. Forsyth, James S. McDonnell Iii, and Sherman Pruitt, Jr.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1981
- William Stubbs v. H. J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1976
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