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LEDBETTER v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Civ. No. 14551.

239 F.Supp. 369 (1965)

John Frank LEDBETTER, Jr. v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

March 18, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Carrico, Jr., court-appointed, Baltimore, Md., for petitioner.

Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and R. Randolph Victor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Md., for respondent.

THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Petitioner (Ledbetter) was convicted of first degree murder by a jury in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on February 24, 1960, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The death resulted from the brutal slugging and robbing of an old man by four 19-year-old youths. Ledbetter was represented at his trial, which was held after the trials of the other three youths, by an experienced criminal lawyer, engaged by his family. The same attorney and his...

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