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UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 56 C 175.

150 F.Supp. 465 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. De Vandlis WIGGINS, Petitioner, v. Joseph E. RAGEN, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

April 24, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward R. Lev, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Latham Castle, Atty. Gen. of Illinois, Ben Schwartz, Edward M. White, Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.

PERRY, District Judge.

On March 27, 1951, the petitioner, having pleaded guilty to an indictment charging armed robbery, was sentenced by the State court to serve terms in the Illinois penitentiary. In 1954 the petitioner prosecuted his petition under the Post-Conviction law of Illinois, S.H.A. Ill. ch. 38, § 826 et seq., which was denied on December 22, 1954. Upon writ of error to the Supreme Court of Illinois, this order was affirmed. Petition for certiorari...

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