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EX PARTE QUIRIN

47 F.Supp. 431 (1942)

Ex parte QUIRIN (and six other cases).

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

July 28, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colonel Kenneth C. Royall, of Raleigh, N. C., for petitioners.

Francis B. Biddle, Atty. Gen., for respondent.

MORRIS, District Judge.

The petitioner, Richard Quirin, asks leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by his counsel. It is conceded by petitioner's counsel that petitioner landed on the coast of the United States in June, 1942, from a German submarine, with explosives, which he was instructed by a German officer to use for the purpose of committing sabotage on certain American industries. In view of this statement of fact, it seems clear that the petitioner...

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