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IN RE CHESSMAN

No. 34375.

128 F.Supp. 600 (1955)

Matter of the Application of Caryl CHESSMAN, A Condemned Man, for a writ of Habeas Corpus.

United States District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

January 4, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Duffy and Berwyn A. Rice, San Rafael, Cal., for petitioner.

No other appearance.

GOODMAN, District Judge.

Six and a half years have passed since the death penalty was adjudged against Chessman by the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles.1 Many appeals and petitions for the writ of habeas corpus2 have now culminated in the instant petition for the writ of habeas corpus. The latter was no doubt prompted by the "invitation" of the U. S. Supreme Court...

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