Court of Appeals for the First Circuit October 31, 1977, 77-1197 (Thomas E. Meloon v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison)

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellee, Thomas E. Meloon, was indicted and convicted under New Hampshire RSA 632:1 subd. 1(c) in 1974 for the crime of “statutory rape”. Meloon unsuccessfully appealed his conviction to the New Hampshire Supreme Court arguing among other issues that the New Hampshire statute violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

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State v. Meloon,

116 N.H. 669, 366 A.2d 1176 (1976).