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UNITED STATES v. BURKE

No. 1328.

90 F.Supp. 868 (1950)

UNITED STATES ex rel. PASCAL v. BURKE.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 15, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. G. Smith, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

John E. Stevenson, Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Thomas E. Waters, Assistant District Attorney for Montgomery Co., Norristown, Pa., for respondent.

GANEY, District Judge.

This case involves an application for a writ of habeas corpus.1 The applicant, now 74 years of age, is being held by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the Eastern State Penitentiary where he is serving, since 1920, a life sentence in solitary confinement. Previous to the filing of his application in this court, the applicant, on February 18, 1949, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court...

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