UNITED STATES v. RICHMOND

No. 59, Docket 24517.

252 F.2d 807 (1958)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Harold D. ROGERS, Relator-Appellee, v. Mark S. RICHMOND, Warden, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1958.

On Petition for Rehearing March 13, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham S. Ullman, State's Atty. for New Haven County, New Haven, Conn., and Robert C. Zampano, East Haven, Conn. (Arthur T. Gorman, Asst. State's Atty., for New Haven County, New Haven, Conn., on the brief), for appellant.

Lawrence M. Dooley, Public Defender for New Haven County, New Haven, Conn., for relator-appellee.

Before HINCKS, LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


HINCKS, Circuit Judge.

The relator, Harold D. Rogers, was tried and convicted in the Connecticut Superior Court of murder, committed during the perpetration of a robbery. He was sentenced to death. The conviction was appealed on the ground that the trial judge, over objection, had improperly admitted two confessions introduced at the trial. A related claim of error concerned the denial of the right to counsel. The Supreme Court of Errors affirmed the conviction, one...

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