OWENS v. SOWDERS

No. 80-3659.

661 F.2d 584 (1981)

Dale Lee OWENS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Dewey SOWDERS, Warden, Kentucky State Reformatory, and Robert F. Stephens, Attorney General of Kentucky, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Lee Owens, pro se.

Eldon L. Webb (court-appointed), Lexington, Ky., for petitioner-appellant.

Steven L. Beshear, Atty. Gen. of Ky., Elizabeth E. Blackford, Martin Glazer, Asst. Attys. Gen., Frankfort, Ky., for respondents-appellees.

Before BROWN and JONES, Circuit Judges, and NEWBLATT, District Judge.


BAILEY BROWN, Circuit Judge.

Petitioner, Dale Lee Owens, was convicted, after a jury trial in Kentucky state court, of three counts of first-degree rape and three counts of first-degree burglary. He is presently serving sentences totaling 105 years for those crimes. Owens filed a petition in the Eastern District of Kentucky pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, alleging that he was denied due process when the trial court failed...

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