Elroy Lynn Wabasha v. Herman Solem, Warden, South Dakota State Penitentiary and Mark Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South Dakota

FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Elroy Wabasha appeals the district court’s denial of two separate petitions for writs of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (1976). The two cases were consolidated for purposes of appeal. We affirm the judgments of the district court.1 In the first petition he alleges that his guilty plea was not valid. In the second petition he alleges that his sentence on a subsequent charge was invalid because the sentencing judge suffered from a mental illness which manifested itself in kleptomania.

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In the first petition Wabasha complains of a conviction for…