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UNITED STATES v. MATUS

No. 67, Docket 23166.

218 F.2d 466 (1954)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Watson MOULTHROPE, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Edward MATUS, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 31, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Gordon, Jr., Hartford, Conn. (Gordon, Muir & Fitzgerald and Stephen M. Riley, Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for petitioner-appellant.

Albert S. Bill, State's Atty. for Hartford County, Conn., Hartford, Conn. (Douglass B. Wright, Asst. State's Atty. for Hartford County, Conn., Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for respondent-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and L. HAND and MEDINA, Circuit Judges.

CLARK, Chief Judge.

Relator appeals from the dismissal of his writ of habeas corpus challenging the legality of his detention under an outstanding warrant for his extradition to Florida. Relator claims that, since Florida forcibly extradited him to Connecticut in 1930,1 he cannot now be considered a fugitive from justice within U.S.Const. Art. IV, § 2, and 18 U.S.C. § 3182. He asserts that by honoring Connecticut's earlier demand...

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