SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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                                   No. 91-7358
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                     TODD A. BRECHT, PETITIONER v. GORDON A.
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                        ABRAHAMSON, SUPERINTENDENT, DODGE
                            CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION

                       ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED
                     STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH
                                     CIRCUIT

                                [April 21, 1993]

  JUSTICE SOUTER, dissenting.

  I join in all but the footnote and Part III of JUSTICE WHITE's dissent,
subject only to the caveat that I do not mean to indicate an opinion on the
merits of Stone v. Powell, 428 U. S. 465 (1976).
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