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General
Zant, Warden v. Stephens
459 U.S. 1012·Supreme Court of the United States·1982
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Opinion
No. 81-89.
Zant, Warden v. Stephens.
[MAJORITY]
C. A. 5th Cir. [Certiorari granted, 454 U. S. 814; question certified, 456 U. S. 410.] The parties are invited to file within 30 days supplemental memoranda addressing the opinion of the Supreme Court of Georgia, Case No. 38763, decided October 27, 1982 [250 Ga. 97, 297 S. E. 2d 1], and its effect on the case pending before this Court.