UNITED STATES v. MURPHY

Civ. No. 7253.

166 F.Supp. 830 (1958)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Edward ALLEN, Relator, v. Robert E. MURPHY, Warden of State Prison at Auburn, New York, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. New York.

October 27, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Allen, relator, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., John F. Dwyer, Dist. Atty. of Erie County, Buffalo, N. Y., Raymond B. Madden, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel, for respondent.


FOLEY, District Judge.

The petitioner filed directly with me on August 27, 1958, a voluminous handwritten petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Among the many contentions was the claim that a statement or confession used against him at his trial for murder, first degree, was involuntary and coerced from him by threats, physical violence, fraud and deception. On pages 3, 18 and 19 of his original petition he describes his alleged ordeal with many of the words and circumstances...

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