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HOUCHENS v. COX

Civ. A. No. CA 79-0658-R.

490 F.Supp. 425 (1980)

Robert Lee HOUCHENS, Petitioner, v. J. D. COX et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Virginia, Richmond Division.

June 2, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley S. Stetler, Graber, Stetler & Townsend, Alexandria, Va., for petitioner.

Robert E. Bradenham, II, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Va., Richmond, Va., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM

MERHIGE, District Judge.

Petitioner, Robert Lee Houchens, here seeks a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254. Petitioner is presently an inmate of the Virginia Department of Corrections and is confined at the department's Powhatan facility. The petition asserts that petitioner's August 5, 1971 conviction in the Circuit Court of New Kent County, Virginia violated the speedy trial provisions of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments...

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