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GIBSON v. JACKSON

Civ. A. No. 77-59-MAC.

443 F.Supp. 239 (1977)

Samuel GIBSON, III, Plaintiff, v. George L. JACKSON, Individually and as Superior Court Judge of Jones County, Georgia, Butch Moore, Charles E. Baker, Jr., Nelson Chapman, Individually and in their capacity as Commissioners of Jones County Georgia, James Ricketts, Individually and in his capacity as Warden of the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia, George Busbee, Individually and in his capacity as Governor of the State of Georgia, Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Georgia, Macon Division.

December 16, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Millard C. Farmer, Jr., Robert Altman, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., G. Stephen Parker, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Ga., Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

OWENS, District Judge:

Constitutionally and legally the State of Georgia may execute persons who murder their fellow human beings provided that such persons have been constitutionally and legally tried and sentenced, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), and provided further that they have been afforded their "constitutional right of access to the courts to assert such procedural and substantive...

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