United States Fourth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff petition for habeas corpus is vacated where the Attorney General's failure to serve him with the answer to the petition violated the procedural rules governing service of such exhibits in habeas corpus proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/01/2005
• Decided 10/25/2005
• Published 10/25/2005

Judges

• Before LUTTIG, KING, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Frederick Carl Crombie, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  Ann Norman Bosse, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.