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Title: Kowalski v. Parratt
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Release Date : January 15, 1976
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 54 KB

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BRIGHT, Circuit Judge. Donald Kowalski, a Nebraska state prisoner, appeals the dismissal of his habeas corpus petition by District Judge Warren K. Urbom. Petitioner seeks to overturn his two-count conviction of robbing one Eugene Jones of $428 and one pint of Old Forester whiskey,1 (count I) and using a firearm in the commission of the robbery (count II). The Nebraska court sentenced Kowalski to a six-year prison term for the robbery and to a three-year consecutive term for the use of a firearm. Kowalski claims here, as he has in Nebraska postconviction proceedings,2 that the Double Jeopardy Clause, applicable to the states through the fourteenth amendment, precludes convicting and sentencing him for two felonies arising from a single act.