Roland J. Hickey v. Herman Solem, Warden, and Mark v. Meierhenry, Attorney General, State of South Dakota

Roland J. Hickey appeals from a final judgment of the District Court 1 for the District of South Dakota denying his petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For reversal appellant argues that the district court erred in finding (1) that his right to due process was not denied as the result of alleged contacts between the jurors and relatives of the man appellant was on trial for killing; and (2) that the prosecutor’s failure to furnish a copy of a witness’s statement was not improper because nothing in that statement was material to appellant’s guilt or punishment. We affirm.

Hickey…