UNITED STATES v. FAY


197 F.Supp. 855 (1961)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Dewey McDade THOMPSON, Jr., Petitioner, v. Edward M. FAY, Warden, Green Haven Prison, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

September 27, 1961.


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MacMAHON, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus and for equitable relief under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983.

Petitioner is incarcerated in Green Haven Prison, Stormville, N. Y., where he is serving a term of forty years to life. Sentence was imposed in 1941 by the Court of General Sessions, New York County, upon petitioner's plea of guilty to second degree murder.

The petition alleges that a proceeding for...

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