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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 23, 1993                   TAG: 9303230295
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

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SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO HEAR SAVINO APPEAL

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused without comment to hear the appeal of Virginia death row inmate Joseph John Savino Jr.

Savino was convicted in Bedford County in 1989 of beating a 64-year-old man to death with a hammer. - Associated Press

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