State Ex Rel. McLaurin v. McBride

This case is before this Court upon the appeal of John McLaurin from the July 11, 2005, order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, West Virginia, denying him relief in habeas corpus. McLaurin was convicted in that Court in 1989 of two counts of kidnap-ing, without recommendations of mercy, and seven counts of sexual assault in the first degree. The trial court sentenced McLaurin upon the kidnaping convictions to two life terms without the possibility of parole and to 15 to 25 years each upon the seven sexual assault convictions. The sentences were directed to be served consecutively. In…