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HEIDNIK v. HORN

Civil Action No. 97-2561.

960 F.Supp. 74 (1997)

Gary HEIDNIK, Petitioner, v. Martin HORN, Commissioner, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; Gregory White, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, and Joseph P. Mazurkiewicz, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Rockview, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Respondents.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

April 16, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billy H. Nolas, Robert Brett Dunham, Center for Legal Education, Advocacy & Defense Assistance, and Kathy Swedlow, Defender Assoc. of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for petitioner.

Ronald Eisenberg, Catherine Marshall, and Donna K. Zucker, District Attorney's Office of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, for Respondents.

BENCH MEMORANDUM

VAN ANTWERPEN, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

This case comes before us by way of a motion filed by persons claiming "next friend" standing in which they seek to halt the impending imposition of a state court sentence of death upon the petitioner, Gary Heidnik. Specifically, those claiming "next friend" status seek in forma pauperis status, a stay of...

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