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Shears v. Rockefeller

District Court, S.D. West Virginia

Decided February 28, 1986No. Civ. A. No. 84-2414Published

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

HADEN, Chief Judge.

Pending is the Defendants’ motion to dismiss, filed August 1, 1985. Shears’ complaint, filed October 23, 1984, charges that Defendant, and then Governor, John D. Rockefeller, IV, failed to investigate corruption in Marion County. The complaint further charges that John A. Bailes, Chairman of the West Virginia Board of Probation and Parole, and Rockefeller conspired to deny Shears a pardon for his conviction of first degree sexual assault. Specifically, Shears charges that he wrote on November 14, 1983, a letter to Rockefeller that there existed corruption in Marion…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. McGinnis v. RoysterSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. Solesbee v. BalkcomSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
  3. United States v. Albert GudinoCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1970
  4. State Ex Rel. Coole v. SimsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1950

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