Certiorari denied.
MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL concurs, dissenting.
Petitioner Perales, originally convicted of a drug offense, successfully moved for a new trial. In the first trial the prosecutor had waived the habitual-offender provision for a mandatory life sentence in exchange for the petitioner's agreement to waive his right to jury trial. On retrial, petitioner exercised his right to jury trial and the prosecutor refused to waive...
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