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ROPER v. BETO

Civ. A. No. 5104.

318 F.Supp. 662 (1970)

Jimmie Curtis ROPER v. Dr. George J. BETO, Director, Texas Department of Corrections.

United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Tyler Division.

September 30, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Hathaway (court appointed), Tyler, Tex., for petitioner.

Dunklin Sullivan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

JUSTICE, District Judge.

This federal habeas corpus proceeding collaterally challenges the state criminal conviction of Jimmie Curtis Roper on the ground that his station house identification by the prosecutrix "was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable misidentification that he was denied due process of law." Stovall v. Denno, 388 U.S. 293 at 302, 87 S.Ct. 1967 at 1972, 18 L.Ed.2d 1199...

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