CLIFTON A. PEARCE, APPELLEE,
v.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND WARDEN R. L. TURNER, APPELLANTS

4th Cir. | 1968-06-19
No. 12256
397 F.2d 253 United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1968) Caution
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM:

PER CURIAM:

The district court issued a writ of habeas corpus and ordered the release of petitioner for the reason that he had served the maximum term imposed on him at his original trial notwithstanding that on retrial, after successful post-conviction attack, he was sentenced to a longer term. The action was taken on the authority of our decision in Patton v. State of North Caro lina, 381 F. 2d 636 (4 Cir. 1967), cert. den., North Carolina v. Patton, 390 U.S. 905, 88 S.Ct. 818, 19 L.Ed. 871 (1968).

In this appeal, the State of North Carolina frankly asks us to reconsider our decision in Patton in the light of cases considered therein which reached a contrary conclusion and subsequent decisions which have failed to follow it. This we decline to do; and because the issue on appeal is so narrow, we concluded to dispense with oral argument.

On the authority of Patton, the order of the district court is Affirmed.


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