GEAGAN v. GAVIN

Civil No. 60-4.

181 F.Supp. 466 (1960)

Michael V. GEAGAN et al. v. John A. GAVIN, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

January 27, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul T. Smith and Manuel Katz, Boston, Mass., for McGinnis, Costa & Pino.

Lawrence O'Donnell, Dorchester, Mass., for Richardson, Faherty & Geagan.

Robert DeGiacomo, Boston, Mass., for Maffie.

Henry Sontag, Boston, Mass., for Baker.

John F. McAuliffe and George F. Hurley, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Boston, Mass., for defendant.


WYZANSKI, District Judge.

January 18, 1960 eight persons, now serving sentences in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, filed in this Court a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

The petition states that on October 6, 1956 the eight "were found guilty in the Superior Court for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, of various offenses arising out of the $1,219,000 so-called Brinks robbery". It recites...

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