UNITED STATES v. FAY

No. 33, Docket 22401.

205 F.2d 294 (1953)

UNITED STATES ex rel. LAVELLE v. FAY.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Breed, Abbott & Morgan, Stuart H. Johnson, Jr., New York City, of counsel, for relator-appellant.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., Wendell P. Brown, Sol. Gen., Albany, N. Y., Samuel A. Hirshowitz and Vincent A. Marsicano, Asst. Attys. Gen., of N. Y., of counsel, for respondent-appellee.

Before SWAN, Chief Judge, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The relator sought a writ of habeas corpus in the District Court for the Southern District of New York on the ground that his present New York sentence as a second offender is illegal since his prior federal conviction was invalid on the constitutional ground that he was deprived of the assistance of counsel at his trial, and that therefore he should be remanded to the New York State Court for resentencing as a first offender.

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