Raymond Palmer v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · Decided 1966-04-06

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SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge: Sentences of life imprisonment for rape and forty years for a five dollar robbery, to be served “consecutively,” were imposed on Raymond Palmer in 1958. He had first been tried in 1957, but a mistrial was declared. His second trial, in 1958, ended with a hung jury. At his third trial later in the same year…

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