POTTS v. AUSTIN

Civ. Nos. C80-964A, C80-46G.

492 F.Supp. 326 (1980)

Jack Howard POTTS v. Sam AUSTIN, Warden, Georgia State Prison (two cases).

United States District Court, N. D. Georgia, Atlanta and Gainesville Divisions.

June 13, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Millard C. Farmer, Andrea I. Young, Joseph M. Nursey, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

John C. Walden, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Harrison Kohler, Susan V. Boleyn, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendant.


ORDER

O'KELLEY, District Judge.

This is the life or death saga of a convicted murderer on death row. Over the past week these actions have steered a bizarre course, and now as a result of petitioner's actions, this pen writes of Jack Howard Potts probably for the last time.

Jack Howard Potts was arrested, tried, and convicted of heinous and despicable crimes against society. He was tried for separate crimes in Cobb and Forsyth Counties for what has...

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