JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner brings a habeas corpus action pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254, mounting a collateral attack on a 1972 state conviction. Concluding that under recent Supreme Court precedent he was not "in custody" for purposes of the statute, we affirm the district court's dismissal of the petition.
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In 1972 a state court convicted Bruce Hendrix for possession of a narcotic drug and sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment...
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