UNITED STATES v. JACKSON

Civ. No. 6687.

153 F.Supp. 781 (1957)

UNITED STATES ex rel. William WADE, Relator-Petitioner, v. J. Vernal JACKSON, as Warden of Clinton Prison, State of New York, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. New York.

July 15, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry C. Roemer, Jr., New York City, for relator-petitioner, Philip C. Potter, Jr., New York City, and Earl H. Gallup, Albany, N. Y., of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., for respondent, J. Bruce MacDonald and Raymond B. Madden, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel.


FOLEY, District Judge.

The petitioner Wade files a second petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The first writ applied for involved the substantial legal contention of coerced confession and it was denied by me by Memorandum-Decision and Order dated September 26, 1956, reported as United States ex rel. Wade v. Jackson, 144 F.Supp. 458. With such denial I granted a Certificate of Probable Cause for the stated reason that the contentions...

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