Edward Thomas, 127-693 v. Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Edward Thomas, serving five consecutive ten-year sentences imposed by a Maryland state court for his conviction on four counts of armed robbery and one of assault on a police officer, petitioned the United States District Court for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. He claimed that the imposition of consecutive sentences for his conviction on three separate counts of armed robbery of three different bank tellers during the course of a single episode of bank robbery violated his double jeopardy rights. The district court rejected that claim and…