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SIMMONS v. BLODGETT

No. C90-1751Z.

910 F.Supp. 1519 (1996)

David F. SIMMONS, Petitioner, v. James BLODGETT, Superintendent, Respondent.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington, Northern Division.

January 10, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Stuart Solovy, Bell, O'Connor, Flegenheimer & Leong, Seattle WA, for Petitioner.

Paul Douglas Weisser, Thomas J. Young, Attorney General's Office, Corrections Division, Olympia WA, for Respondent.

ORDER

ZILLY, District Judge.

This is an extraordinary case. The petitioner has been imprisoned for more than eleven years based on a conviction that may well have been constitutionally deficient. His sole claim for habeas relief1 rests on the admission by one juror, made eight years after trial, that prior to and during the trial she read numerous newspaper articles about the case, some of which contained prejudicial information...

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