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FIELDS v. STRICKLAND

Civ. A. No. 75-883.

444 F.Supp. 795 (1977)

James Hiram FIELDS, Jr., Petitioner, v. Jesse W. STRICKLAND, Warden, CCI, State of S. C., Daniel R. McLeod, Attorney General of the State of South Carolina, Respondents.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

February 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Hayes, III, of Hayes, Brunson & Gatlin, Rock Hill, S. C., for James Hiram Fields, Jr.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen., for the State of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C., and Emmet H. Clair, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., and Katherine W. Hill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Columbia, S. C., for Jesse W. Strickland and Daniel R. McLeod.

ORDER

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

This matter is again before the court on the petition of James Hiram Fields, Jr. for a writ of habeas corpus.1 By its Order filed August 15, 1975, the court directed that the matter be deferred pending the outcome of petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of South Carolina, which had affirmed his conviction for murder on April 16, 1975. Petitioner's attorneys have now...

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