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KETCHUM v. WARD

No. Civ-75-79.

422 F.Supp. 934 (1976)

Jesse KETCHUM, M. D., Petitioner, v. Benjamin WARD, Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services of the State of New York, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, W. D. New York.

November 5, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy Lucas, Washington, D. C., Carlisi, Carlisi & Trafalski, Buffalo, N. Y., for petitioner.

Edward C. Cosgrove, Dist. Atty. of Erie County, Buffalo, N. Y. (Judith Blake Manzella, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel), for respondent Cosgrove.

CURTIN, Chief Judge.

This is an application for a writ of habeas corpus by the petitioner, Dr. Jesse Ketchum, who was convicted of criminally negligent homicide on October 26, 1973, in Erie County Supreme Court, as a result of the death of a patient upon whom he had performed an abortion.1 The conviction was affirmed without opinion by the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department. People v. Ketchum, 45 App.Div.2d 820...

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