                       Cite as: 577 U. S. ____ (2016)                              1

                                  Per Curiam

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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                                  No. 14–1516
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   STEPHEN DUNCAN, WARDEN, PETITIONER v.

             LAWRENCE OWENS 

 ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 

           APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT

                              [January 20, 2016]


  PER CURIAM. 

  The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently 

granted.
                                        It is so ordered.
