MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
PIERSOL, Chief Judge.
Petitioner Randy Lee Closs, a South Dakota inmate, petitions for habeas corpus relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. For the reasons stated below, the petition is granted.
I. Background and Procedural History
On April 12, 1984, when petitioner was twenty-one years old, a South Dakota jury convicted him of second-degree burglary and grand theft in one case and of third-degree burglary and petty theft...
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