District Court, S.D. Mississippi December 13, 1985, Civ. A. J84-0501(B) (Johnson v. Thigpen)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BARBOUR, District Judge.

Petitioner Edward Earl Johnson, a black man, was convicted in 1980 in the Circuit Court of Leake County, Mississippi, of the capital murder of Town Marshal J.T. Trest, a white man, at a time when Trest was performing official duties as a law enforcement officer.