Lon O. Owsley v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary

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• “Though state courts may for policy reasons follow the decisions of the Court of Appeals whose circuit includes their state, they are not obliged to do so.” (citation omitted)
• “Though state courts may for policy reasons follow the decisions of the [federal] Court of Appeals whose circuit includes their state, . . . they are not obliged to do so.”

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